Thorough changes are taking place in China’s PE industry following an explosive growth in 2011, as evidenced in the slowing pace of capital deployments by PE funds amid weakening secondary markets and fewer IPOs in the first two months of 2012.
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Lenders Predict Private Equity Regulation in Phoenix Survey
Results of the first quarter Phoenix Management “Lending Climate in America” Survey signal that lenders’ expect private equity regulation will occur despite the outcome of the presidential race.
Venture Capital Investment Continues To Fall In Europe
Dow Jones VentureSource: Deal activity continues steady decline; sharp drop-off in investment in first quarter
Reynders, McVeigh Capital Management Issues Paper On Complementing Portfolios with Social Impact Ventures
Reynders, McVeigh Capital Management announced today the release of a new Insight Paper, “Financial Focus on Social Returns: Complementing Portfolios with Impact Investments."
Social gifting: the new buzzword in e-commerce
Last year, the buzzword in e-commerce was Groupon Inc and its myriad of competitors that offered daily online coupons to entice shoppers in a down economy. Now, the latest fashion in retail is social gifting, where people get together on Facebook to buy each other gifts.
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Research and Markets has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship" to their offering.
Dow Jones VentureSource: U.S. Venture Companies Raised $6.3 Billion in First Quarter, an 18% Decline; Only IT Industry Saw Deals & Investment Increase.
There is a lot of hype and excitement around Africa as the next hot spot for global investors but what they are quickly learning is that acquisitions do not come cheap.
Financing for roads and highways is likely to attract a growing number of public-private partnerships once Congress passes federal transportation funding, a panel of experts at a Federal Association of Municipal Analysts conference in Las Vegas said on Friday.
China is poised to boost quotas on outbound investment schemes to $100 billion and cut barriers to moving foreign currency in and out of the country in a series of swift but small steps to crank open its tightly controlled capital account.
