Opinion
What is really happening in the Australian private equity market?
It sure doesn’t feel like it, but AVCJ has been holding its annual Australia conference for the eight consecutive years now. And what a spectacular eight years they have been, not only for our conference but also for the private equity industry Down...
Leaving the mother ship: Asian professionals on their own
What a difference a year makes.
Private Equity Hops Ahead in the Year of the Rabbit
THE CHINESE NEW YEAR WILL BE UPON us in a few days and the celebration is already beginning, as shopping malls and office buildings are decked in peach blossoms, fake firecrackers and other ornaments, all ushering the year of the Rabbit to come. The Rabbit,...
More than meets the eye
Early indications suggest that the next 12 months will be a bumper year for the private equity industry. It seems that every fund we talk to has a number of liquidity events in the making, while many notable names are looking to be back in the fundraising...
The RMB and Chinese private equity
Chinese leader Hu Jintao will meet with his American counterpart, Barrack Obama this week in the US. While geo-political issues will feature in the summit, economic and trade issue will loom large in the agenda in this meeting, described as the most important...
The evolution of Australian private equity
Recently, there has been a lot of discussion in the AVCJ office about the Australian private equity market (naturally, as we are preparing for our Sydney event scheduled for March 2011) and the ongoing evolution of the asset class down under.
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Leaving AVCJ
From one very private perspective, the story of the development of Asia Pacific private equity over the critical past half-decade is the story of a journey along one road: Harcourt Road and Gloucester Road, which run straight into each other alongside...
What to do in China?
The recent news that China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange has granted the $3 billion RMB foreign exchange quota necessary to kick off the Qualified Institutional Limited Partner (QFLP) scheme in Shanghai seems to have sparked off quite a few...
Broad sunlit uplands?
The annual Asian gathering of all the best and brightest in the region’s private equity concluded with an upbeat mood that few would have predicted the same time a year ago.
The shape of the future?
As Asia Pacific private equity begins its biggest public event of the year, it also has seen the apparent eclipse of one of its stars.
Tectonic shift toward Asia Pacific?
It's that time again: another year for Asia Pacific private equity brings round another fixture in the region’s industry calendar – the AVCJ Asia Pacific Private Equity & Venture Forum.
Awards finalists – the people’s choice
This year's list of finalists for the AVCJ Asian Private Equity & Venture Capital Awards, released for public voting this week, was the result of the first ever open call for nominations in the Awards’ ten-year history.
Caught in the currency crossfire?
With US/China tension continuing high on the currency issue, spare a thought for the private equity firms and LPs who have committed to China, and now face the prospect of political tensions upsetting their target markets, and even perhaps a trade war.
What drives your private equity returns?
International investors may face something of a context shift when they look to enter Asia and actually derive returns from the region.
Which way for Asian private equity?
The release of CalPERS's latest fund performance results comes at an interesting time.
Banks far down the spinout trail?
HSBC Private Equity Asia's spinout comes as no surprise.
China reshapes the world?
China's rise to private equity superpower status is the subject of much comment in AVCJ lately and elsewhere; but one less immediately obvious implication is the prediction made by David Patrick Eich of Kirkland & Ellis, that “China will have a profound...
Indonesia heat
Fresh off the plane back from Jakarta, I can confirm that Indonesia merits the attention private equity GPs and LPs are now paying to it – and that the attention is almost as frothy and buzzing as the overall Indonesian economy.
Summer daze
AVCJ is taking a well-earned break, but astute readers will already have noticed that summer is a’coming in on anything but a quiet note.
It's a wrap
In the course of several unrelated discussions on secondaries last week, I was reminded of one of the more curious byways of private equity fund investment: the wrap.
Chindia, more Chindia
With the volume of China hype across the region, it’s good to receive a timely reminder of the other great growth market in the region: India.
A schizophrenic industry?
The latest AVCJ Research figures on private equity activity in 2010 show an industry that is powering ahead in precisely the weakest areas for private equity in the West.
Private equity dodges US regulatory bullets?
A couple of much-anticipated US regulatory developments for private equity that were definitely calculated to affect the industry in Asia Pacific, and indeed, worldwide, appear to either have closed, or be on the point of closing, with relatively positive...