Private Equity
CIMB Standard, the joint venture private equity and infrastructure platform of CIMB Group and Standard Bank, is to manage an incoming infrastructure fund aimed at investing in Asia’s “emerging countries”. The vehicle already has $250 million of equity commitments from its sponsors.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Actis’s head of Africa tells about the challenges facing the continent and its pending growth story.
5 min read · 05 January 2013
Korea Investment Corporation’s move into private equity is good news for GPs in a fundraising drought.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Fundraising for Asia-focused funds may have stalled, but it has less to do with Asia than it has to with a slowdown in the pace of investments globally, writes Siddharth Poddar.
9 min read · 05 January 2013
The Shanghai-based VC firm has made two new hires as it continues investing its $320m Fund II.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The placement agent has appointed Sheng Lu to head its new Shanghai office.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Steven Lin, the executive vice president of Capmark Financial and head of its Asia operations, has resigned effective immediately, according to a regulatory filing. Lin was formerly with Goldman Sachs' Real Estate Principal Investment Area.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Financing the development of China's green economy may require nearly $6 trillion by 2030. Jenny Blinch explores.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The China-focused private equity firm has raised just over a third of its $1.4bn target.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The ability of China’s largest city to become a major global fund formation centre hinges on the unpredictable attitude of central government, writes Andy Thomson.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
