Regulation
Industry Q&A: Benjamin Fanger
Benjamin Fanger, co-founder and MD of China-focused distressed investment fund Shoreline Capital Management, speaks to AVCJ’s Christina Kautzky
Oz media rebates may help PE investees
Rebates announced by the Australian government for the next two years on the license fees that commercial free-to-air broadcasters pay to the state may prove a lifeline to hard-pressed private equity investors in the sector. Australia’s channels Seven,...
SEC reconsiders placement agent restrictions
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may review its recently unveiled plans to prevent private equity firms from hiring placement agents to help seek funds from public pensions.
New alignments, new businesses
New regulations and new fund realignments look set to push more private equity activity to Asia.
Oh dear, Obama
US President Barack Obama’s recent statement about curbing US banks’ abilities to use their own capital to trade out of proprietary investment accounts or to invest in private equity funds and hedge funds is rife with implications, but very little in...
Sovereign risk overtakes sovereign wealth?
As the echoes of President Barack Obama’s thunderbolt against the banks, hedge funds and private equity continue to reverberate around financial circles, greater uncertainty – rather than certain doom – seems to be about to rain down on us.
Risks and rewards for 2010
The year ahead is already being keenly talked over – and up – as investors and financial/commercial figures watch for indicators of what direction the global economy is going to take as it exits the past year’s dead zone.
CalPERS places spotlight on placement
One not strictly Asia Pacific development that emerged lately – but one that certainly has implications for GPs here – is the latest wrinkle in the ongoing controversy over the relationship between California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS)...
Anticlimax in Copenhagen
The long-awaited Copenhagen climate conference delivered much sound and fury – but few substantive results.
Australia tax office may hit investments
The Australian Tax Office has made a draft determination stating that in some cases profits from the disposal of assets by private equity firms can be classed as taxable income.
ILPA principles are emerging winners
Leading development finance institutions have lined up to endorse the Private Equity Principles recently promulgated by the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) – a strong signal for GPs and advisors across Asia Pacific that the principles...
PRC State Council makes new partnership rule
China’s State Council has announced a new rule, ‘Administrative Measures on Partnership Enterprises Established by Foreign Enterprises or Individuals,’ that will allow foreign entities to form partnerships in China, with local entities or independently....
PRC central government announces VC fund plans
China’s central government has announced on the State Council website its plans for national-government-backed VC funds, to operate alongside local government and private funds.