Analysis
Wall Street's clean up reaches far and wide
To say the New York federal jury, which pronounced Galleon Group hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam guilty of all 14 charges of securities fraud and conspiracy against him, sent shock waves through the city’s financial services community is an understatement....
Counting on cleantech
Private equity dollars have flooded into China’s renewable energy sector, but should investors hedge their bets?
Proceed with caution
China’s rapid growth has lured private equity funds pie-eyed for returns, but the market’s realities make investing more difficult to maneuver
Vehicles of the state
Closely followed yet widely misunderstood, sovereign wealth funds are making a big impression on private equity in Asia
History shows that PE is set to benefit from China's spend
Fears that the value of the US dollar will continue its downward spiral have prompted central banks across Asia to look at alternative investment routes to hedge their exposure to assets related to the currency. For China, with approximately $3 trillion...
Private equity goes primetime in China
Stunning exits, robust investments and record fundraising is transforming China into private equity’s biggest opportunity
Asia Pacific's happy returns
Asia’s exit market has picked up steam in 2011, but questions remain as to whether timing is optimal
The economic impact – and opportunity – of disaster
MORE THAN TWO MONTHS AFTER A major earthquake - followed by a mind-boggling tsunami that incapacitated a nuclear power plant – shook Japan and its financial systems to the core, recovery is seemingly on the horizon, and according to Yoshito Hori, Managing...
Playing Asia's PE field
In a business where a small number of individuals make a big amount of impact, investors in Asian private equity are finding departures of senior dealmakers becoming more than a handful
Barrick Gold makes winning bid for Equinox
GOLD AND COPPER ARE NOT infrequently entwined in an ore body. So not surprisingly, some gold miners spin off secondary copper production as a by-product.
PE and the pension system
Ontario Teachers’ reported record-high results in 2010, yet substantial liabilities overhang remains, signaling a broad-based issue likely to challenge many pension plans going forward
BoaML PE team spins out
NewQuest Capital Partners to focus on direct secondaries in Asia via its $400 million fund
China's natural resources M&A on the ups
Hot on the heels of AVCJ’s recent China M&A overview, in which higher highs were cited as likely in the country’s ongoing quest to secure future natural resources supplies to keep its development trajectory on track, Minmetals Resources put forward a...
Co-investments: Are GPs and LPs on the same page?
Private equity funds investing together with their limited partners have been on the rise recently with no signs of slowing down but what are the economics and the implications for the relationship?
Asia Pacific fund terms to fore in tough times
The latest Asia Pacific Private Equity Fund Terms Survey from independent fund of funds group Squadron Capital highlights a few shortcomings in regional funds’ adherence to the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) principles, increasingly...
Korean PE goes full circle
While fundraising efforts and investment and private equity activity have been subdued for some time, exit-focused activity is very much on the boil
Longreach makes long-awaited first close
Hong Kong-based general partner The Longreach Group has completed the $125 million first close of its Japan-focused Longreach Capital Partners 2, L.P., coming as Japan’s business environment undergoes a transitional period.
MSPE Asia's Scott Hahn takes on Korea
In the latest in a string of recent spin offs by PE professionals in the region, former CIO and Managing Director at Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia, Scott Hahn, is said to be raising $500 million for a fund that will solely focus on South Korean investments....
Apollo takes step forward with IPO, two steps back
On March 22, Apollo Global Management LLC was confident that its imminent IPO prospects were solid. One of its aims was to join fellow private equity giants Blackstone and KKR in going public. In fact, the Apollo event was widely seen as likely to re-ignite...
Breaking out of the shell
Captive funds have becoming active in Asia but are they here for the long term?
Japan and India: A match made in Asia
Early in 2011, Indian and Japanese regulators launched measures to more closely align their economies to promote cross-border deals. Since then, they have emerged as two of Asia’s strongest business partners. Three major Indian-Japanese deals have materialized...
A view from the top
The upcoming 2011 AVCJ Private Equity and Venture Capital Review highlights the growing importance of Asia-Pacific to the global PE community. It also raises the question: Just where is all this money going?
Buy, buy, buy
While official data out of the PRC varies, most market observers report increasing M&A activity in all segments of the market. Consensus is this will continue for the foreseeable future, and that private equity will want to be more involved