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Global M&A activity picks up, Asia Pacific venture capital investments plunge 73 per cent and US venture-backed liquidity enjoys modest upturn in Q2…

The volume of US venture capital raised in the second quarter was almost matched by the amount of cash handed back to limited partners. New figures showed 30 funds raising $4.6bn in the second quarter at the same time as $3bn being returned to investors.

Mitsubishi launches new venture fund, Carlyle closes latest Asia fund and China gets a new venture capital association…

The Chinese Venture Capital Association has been launched in Beijing with 50 Chinese and foreign foundations and investment companies on board - more evidence of industry expansion in China.

The 1997 financial crisis and the technology meltdown that commenced in April 2000 were a blessing in disguise for the Asian private equity industry, says Kathleen Ng of Asian Private Equity Review. Paradoxically, these events prepared the industry for the upheaval following 11 September. As the industry faces its most severe downturn since direct equity investment first arrived in Asia nearly two decades ago, it takes the determined and the strong to weather this crisis.

E3bn buy-out fund for 3i, Final closing for Bridgepoint, BNP Paribas spins out private equity division, Adams Street closes fund of funds at $900m, Carlyle launches $400m secondaries fund….

Following Lucent's recent sale of its venture capital arm to Coller Capital, many other corporate venturers are seeking to exit their VC operations in one way or another. It's a pattern we've seen before, says Edelson Technology Partners' Harry Edelson, who argues that building in-house corporate venturing teams is always destined to fail.

James E Burton leaves Calpers, Warburg Pincus names Beau Vrolyck as managing director and Kurt Kinzius joins Candover…

VCs to set up The China Venture Capitalists Association, India to experience private equity boom and private equity firms pull out of Asia…

Faber on entrepreneurial private equity groups, on why a downturn is the best time to spot the best managers, on the concentration of capital in a few large funds and on fighting yesterday's battles.