Asia
20 January 2012
Led by drastic growth in China, private equity investment in Emerging Asia has dwarfed commitments in any other emerging market, exceeding $129bn since 2006. While the surge in the region's private equity sector has previously focused on North American and European institutional investment, it is now emerging as a source of capital for both Asian and non-Asian private equity funds.
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9 January 2012
China’s fast-growing social security fund is looking to commit to foreign private equity funds for the first time, in an effort to increase the ratio of overseas investment and boost the returns on the country’s vast pools of foreign exchange reserves.
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28 November 2011
Japanese companies are making large, transformational acquisitions into Europe in order to gain a significant competitive advantage locally, according to new analysis.
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15 November 2011
The first three quarters of 2011 saw 119 emerging markets private equity and venture capital funds raising $32.3bn, against the $23.5bn raised in all of 2010, returning fundrasising activity in this sector to pre-crisis fundraising levels, according to new research.
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10 October 2011
Indian private equity firms invested about $2.249m across 98 deals during the third quarter of 2011, according to a new study. This takes total investments in the first nine months of 2011 to about $8.57bn across 317 transactions, a significant rise on the $6.4bn across 270 transactions in the same period last year.
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20 September 2011
The global financial crisis has instilled a deeper level of confidence in China and drawn international investors’ attention to a market with different economic dynamics where growth of its enterprises is one of the main themes.
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15 September 2011
After the decline in 2009 in both the number of funds and money raised, the Chinese private equity market is quickly recovering from the worldwide financial crisis.
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23 August 2011
Chinese buyers have continued to show their strength in 2011 despite ongoing global economic uncertainty, according to a new report from investment bank Robert W. Baird & Co.
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21 June 2011
With the aim of controlling inflation, the SBV tightened money supply, thereby increasing interest rates. Market interest rates are now averaging 19.86 per cent for short term borrowing, and if including fees (which banks apply to get around the lending rate cap) the effective borrowing costs increased to 23 per cent.
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16 May 2011
Inflation continued to be the headline of the month, with April's CPI increasing by 3.3 per cent, despite the government's increasing efforts in the last several weeks. The increase represented a 17.5 per cent year-on-year increase, the highest since December 2008 and far exceeding most expectations. This brought CPI growth for the year to date to to 9.64 per cent.
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