The Zephyr Peacock India Fund II, which is targeting $75m, will target growth investments in SMEs primarily in tier II and III cities and rural India.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Institutional investors remain committed to emerging markets private equity and convinced it can offer higher returns than more developed markets. However, their perception of the risk involved has incresed since 2008.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The Egypt-focused fund, which is targeting $100m, has raised $51.5m from ‘a significant number of European institutional investors’.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Tay Choon Chong has left GIC to join Vertex, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore's other sovereign wealth fund Temasek.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Tim Grady, the head of global commercial real estate in Asia Pacific for Merrill Lynch has quit in the latest personnel change since the bank was acquired by Bank of America last year.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The two firms will back Oceanus, which is listed on the Singapore stock exchange and has operations in China. The company is seeking $45m to scale up its production and brand marketing activities.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The SEAF India Agribusiness Fund expects to hold a first close on $35m by May.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The Australian Stock Exchange-listed infrastructure fund said that the Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal in Queensland has attracted interest ‘at both the minority and 100 percent level’.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The Toronto-based private equity firm has also opened an office in Dubai to help it 'take a closer look at opportunities internationally’.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The buyout firm formerly known as CCMP Asia is the latest to consolidate its investment activities in the region.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
