Investors need boots on the ground to target China distress - AVCJ Forum
The credit and distress investment opportunity is significant – and expected to grow – but an on-the-ground presence is seen as essential to accessing it, industry participants told the AVCJ China Forum.
“If you take a position it can change rapidly overnight, so you need your finger on the pulse to monitor situations. There is also a bit of the dark arts – it is very hard to restructure things in...
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