
The Asian office: Regional, local or both?
I've said before that it's high time GPs based in US and Europe resume plans to set up offices in Asia. Before these ambitions were mothballed during the global financial crisis, I was often asked where in the region it is best to locate an office. The same question was posed to me at a recent event by an American fund manager.
But it seems that most GPs have become sufficiently familiar with Asia to realize that there isn’t much of a debate – it falls down to logistics and focus. In the past, the choice for the one Asian...
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