The transition to a new party leadership in 2012 should facilitate bolder reform and further unlock China’s growth potential, says Yiqian Jiang, fund manager, DWS Invest Chinese Equities fund… 
We believe that fears of an economic hard-landing will prove unwarranted as the Chinese economy is poised to complete the last stage of
US-based companies raised USD6.3 billion through 717 venture capital deals during the first quarter of 2012, an 18% decline in capital and 9% decline in deals from the same period last year, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. "The declines were pretty evenly spread across industries so there weren’t any big
Guernsey’s zero-10 corporate tax regime has been deemed harmful by the EU’s Code of Conduct Group on Business Taxation. The Code Group had previously ruled similarly in relation to both the zero-10 regimes of both Jersey and the Isle of Man. Guernsey had argued that the offending element from the
Amidst ongoing Eurozone concerns and uncertainty surrounding Spain, Schroders’ Head of Global Macro, Bob Jolly, discusses his tactical approach in light of his outlook for the global fixed income markets… The risks to growth expectations could go either way, so we expect markets to remain nervous and levels of volatility to remain elevated.
Figures published today by the Association of Investment Companies (AIC) show that GBP330 million (value of new shares issued), was raised by the VCT sector during the 2011/2012 tax year compared to GBP365 million in the 2010/11 tax year and the sixth highest amount since VCTs were first launched in
The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) has published detailed analysis of the European Commission’s draft implementing rules for the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD), which shows substantial policy differences between the Commission text and the advice provided by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). Key areas where the
US-based companies led the way in completing merger-and-acquisition (M&A) deals with emerging and high-growth market companies in the second half of 2011, but deal activity dropped by 20 per cent compared with the first half of 2011, according to KPMG International’s latest Emerging Markets International Acquisition Tracker (EMIAT) study. The
Total sovereign wealth fund (SWF) assets under management stand at USD4.62tn, an increase from USD3.98tn in 2011, Preqin data reveals. Data analysed for the forthcoming 2012 Preqin Sovereign Wealth Fund Review also show that more than half of all sovereign wealth funds, 57%, invest in private equity. However, the overall
Willem Sels (pictured), UK Head of Investment Strategy at HSBC Private Bank on how recent data still points to a soft landing scenario in China… In recent months, concerns have increased that China will experience a hard landing and that tightening measures by policymakers since October 2010 have been too
Global limited partners (LPs) continue to expect their commitments to emerging markets private equity (EM PE) to increase, reflecting investor optimism about these markets’ ability to outperform developed markets, according to the latest EMPEA Global Limited Partners Survey. Three-quarters (75%) of LPs expect their commitments to emerging markets to increase
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