Private Equity

East Asia

Chepstow Capital builds out team

The founders of the Hong Kong-based mid-market firm have turned to their former colleagues at HSBC PE Asia and CLSA Capital for new recruits.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

Adveq: European integration to change PE market

As Europe becomes ‘more homogenous and more integrated’, deal opportunities will shift, according Bruno Raschle, CEO of the Swiss fund of funds manager.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

Carlyle injects $15m in Chinese fertilizer maker

The global buyout firm has acquired a 16.5 percent stake in China Agritech and may increase its stake if the company does not meet an agreed net income target this financial year.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

Rubenstein: China 'at the epicentre' of private equity

China's private equity market will make a much greater contribution to growth of the global economy than US private equity has in the past, according to the co-founder of The Carlyle Group.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

Canadian rules

Keynote: The Canadia Pension Plan Investment Board has long practiced an elevated form of pension management. Now it has brought its do-it-ourselves approach to infrastructure investment. David Snow went to Toronto to meet Mark Wiseman and Graeme Bevans, respectively the firm’s head of all private investments and head of infrastructure.

10 min read · 05 January 2013

Warburg co-head sees emerging markets 'tipping point'

Brazil, India and China show increasing independence, but other emerging markets are still too reliant on factors like export markets, Chip Kaye said at The Emerging Markets Forum in London.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

China eases rules for foreign RMB funds

Chinese authorities are understood to have approved new legislation that will make it much more attractive for foreign GPs to launch RMB funds in Shanghai’s Pudong district.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

Private equity firms eye Asian FIG deals

Bain and General Atlantic will submit bids estimated in the $1bn region for Morgan Stanley’s stake in CICC, while Blackstone and KKR are reportedly bidding for AXA’s stake in China’s Taikang Life.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

How fashions have changed

From the golden age to the age of pragmatism: private equity is an industry with evolving strategic priorities. PEI looks at how tastes have altered in five key respects.

10 min read · 05 January 2013

RMB fund fever

Many foreign firms have now announced plans to launch RMB funds in Shanghai, but are there enough LPs to go round?

4 min read · 05 January 2013

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