Fund manager of BlackRock China forecasts futures for investors. According to a fund manager at BlackRock, China's industrial stocks provide good investment opportunities on select markets, such as steel mills to cement producers.
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Research Shows Faked Loans In China's Big Banks
China's big banks are not providing more credit to small and microsized firms. According to a researcher, the big banks of China are not lending more to the smallest firms.
Private equity industry faces new challenge as investors go direct for deals
The private equity industry is facing a new challenge with investors, to avoid the hefty fees being charged by private equity firms, directly buying stakes in companies or go into co-investments.
Survey shows decrease in M&A deal volumes for emerging markets in 2012
A new survey revealed that mergers and acquisitions activity for developed and emerging markets declined in 2012.
High-yield bonds lure PE firms
Attractive rates and longer maturity periods are luring private equity firms to replace leveraged loans with European high-yield bonds.
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South Africa with its diminutive size has more bang for the buck. Since South Africa's inclusion into the BRIC grouping of major emerging countries, there has been a deafening silence in its ascenscion from the global invesment community.
A poll of Japan based managers indicated that allocations have increased in both shares and bonds but decreased in cash.
At the height of the Cyprus bailout drama, investors sought safety in bonds for the meantime. According to monthly poll conducted by Reuters of asset managers, global investors grew ever more cautious this month.
The IPO market is growing again in North America and Europe. Globally, initial public offerings raised US$20 billion in the first quarter of 2013. The growth of this financial area was buoyed by rallies in different stock markets to sell businesses.
With infrastructure demand at an all time high, there are still many pitfalls that investors face when putting their money into Southeast Asia.
Colombia, Peru, Costa Rica and Mexico are preparing its financial systems for the pressure from foreign markets on their currencies.
Reuters, in its investigation, found existing measures by the EU that could have avoided the Cypriot banking system collapse.
Itau' Unibanco emerges as top global debt manager according to Thomson Reuters data. Brazilian banks raced ahead of its foreign competition in the management of global debt offerings from both its government and fellow companies in 2012.
The slowdown in world markets and the decline of the US Dollar value against other currencies is a recipe for problems post 2008.
