Taiwan returns to the private equity map
I may have said this many times before but Taiwan, with its large number of world-class managers, manufacturing prowess and geographic proximity and cultural similarities to China, has the potential to be a leading investment destination for private equity investors. Indeed, for a brief period it was.
In 2005, pretty much from nowhere, Taiwan was logging big private equity investment numbers, with close to $5 billion deployed in both 2006 and 2007. That put it amongst the most active markets in Asia...
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