Asia

A tie-up between overseas buyout fund fund Carlyle Group , and China's largest privately-owned investment firm Fosun , represents the first partnership of its kind for China's fast-growing... 2010-03-03

Whether we look at M&A or IPO activity, it seems that corporate financing is no longer driven by Western trends. Takeovers involving emerging market (EM) acquirers represented... 2010-02-22

The Indian government looks set to continue its attempts to tackle its budgetary squeeze head-on, by raising money from selling off stakes in state-run companies against the backdrop... 2010-03-03

Predictions of an IPO boom in 2010, by a host of bankers, investors, and corporate executives has thus-far failed to materialise. However, as we identified in '2010: IPO Boom Or Bust?'... 2010-02-23

It is does not take much imagination to figure this one out: UK Business Secretary Peter Mandelson's call to review UK takeover law is clearly a political ploy in the run up to the... 2010-03-05

The latest soundbites from China suggest that Beijing is getting serious about diversifying into gold. Just as TICs data have just shown that China sold over US$34bn Treasuries in... 2010-02-26

Of the money raised so far this year towards investment in China, nearly 60% was raised through renminbi funds worth nearly RMB20.4bn, according to the Centre for Asia Private Equity... 2009-12-14

The imminent sale of the Tokyo-based Bellsystem24 Inc. call centre, a unit of international financial conglomerate Citigroup, has attracted a high volume of interest in the first... 2009-09-07

India is ranked sixth in the world in terms of FX reserves held by regions of the world, accounting for 3% of global reserves, so why is it the only BRIC without a sovereign wealth... 2009-12-29

If we consider the role of SWFs in the global economy, it can be argued that to a large extent, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) were born of global imbalance. Indeed, the latter imbalance... 2009-10-19