VENTURE CAPITAL POST

A Reuters report said that investors had started to take out their capital from emerging markets as Fed tapering loomed.

LeapFrog Investments gathered USD 204 million in capital commitments for Fund II.

According to the Latin American Venture Capital Association, there has been a 100% increase in value and volume for the market for the first half of 2013.

The drop in first-half profits and loan writedowns of Bank Austria proved that boom times are over in central and eastern Europe (CEE).

Honda Motor Corp expressed caution on investing in emerging markets as Japan sales fell by 24%.

A report by the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association said that emerging-market private equity companies gathered US$10.8 billion, down 52% from last year's numbers.

Apple was expected to stay as the dominant figure in the technology industry if it was able to innovate more and add pressure to its competitors.

Orix Corp. stated it would invest half a billion dollars in fast growing markets.

Investors retracted US$13.9 billion from equity mutual funds invested in Brazil, Russia, India and China.

Mark Mobius of Templeton Emerging Markets Group considered investing in Africa.

A study has found that Academic endowments to Africa outperformed the US S&P 500 in the past decade.

Investors' insurance cost via credit default swap increased.

Investors said that emerging market assets are prone to inflation, making them a very risky place to invest in.

Emerging markets, including China, South Africa and Turkey, fell 10% from this year's peak.