In this episode of China Money Podcast, guest Xia Mingchen, a Hong Kong-based principal at Hamilton Lane's fund investment team, spoke to our host Nina Xiang. Xia says Hamilton Lane likes distressed debt and special situations strategies in China. They will likely outperform as the Chinese economic transition provides plenty of opportunities for corporate restructuring. […]

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In this episode of China Money Podcast, guest Xia Mingchen, a Hong Kong-based principal at Hamilton Lane's fund investment team, spoke to our host Nina Xiang. Xia says as the Chinese economy re-balances, private equity fund managers need to focus more on sector expertise and post-investment management of their portfolios. Don't forget to subscribe to […]

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The timing of the terrorist attacks in Paris, just a few weeks before the UN Climate Change Conference, might not have been entirely coincidental. After all, increasingly severe environmental conditions in much of the Middle East and the Sahel are help…

Toxic fog envelops capital cities at the forefront of runaway economic growth

Great-power competition – like that playing out today among a long-dominant US, a more active Russia, and a rising China – is nothing new. But its persistence does not – indeed, must not – prevent cooperation on major security issues, like the crisis in Syria.

In this episode of China Money Podcast, guest Xia Mingchen, a Hong Kong-based principal at Hamilton Lane's fund investment team, spoke to our host Nina Xiang. Xia says he prefers country-specific private equity funds over pan-Asian vehicles, because local expertise is critical in achieving success in the region. Don't forget to subscribe to China Money […]

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For Europe, solidarity begins at home. That means supporting aggregate demand and pro-growth reforms to ensure a more resilient recovery of jobs and incomes – and thereby beating back the populists and nationalists currently gaining ground throughout the continent.

Next year, the G-20 has an opportunity to show that it can deal effectively with global crises, from plummeting growth to transnational terrorism. With China – a country that has proved its willingness to put its money where its mouth is – at the helm, greater international cooperation and economic integration is certainly possible.

Shanghai-based peer-to-peer car rental start-up Atzuche has completed RMB300 million (US$47 million) series B round of financing from China Pacific Insurance, Ivy Capital, Hearst Capital, Matrix Partners and Ceyuan Ventures, according to Chinese media reports. Established in 2013, Atzuche received US$10 million series A funding led by Matrix Partners in October 2014. Auzuche currently operates […]

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Chinese B2C e-commerce retailer Dangdang.com announced that the company plans to open 1,000 physical bookstores within three years, covering shopping malls, supermarkets, and towns. Its first bookstore will reportedly open in Changsha, Hunan, in Decemb…

Ant Financial, the financial services arm of Alibaba Group Holding Limited, says an Internet bank it helped co-launch in South Korea has won government approval, taking the new bank one step closer to providing innovative online financial services in the country. K Bank, jointly launched by Korean Telecom, Ant Financial and over a dozen other […]

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Chinese online game developer and operator The9 announced that its joint venture Oriental Shiny Star Limited has reached an agreement with South Korean game developer Smilegate Entertainment for the exclusive operation of Cross Fire 2 in mainland China. With this agreement, Oriental Shiny Star will gain the exclusive rights to publish and operate Smilegate Entertainment's […]

Shenzhen-listed Meinian Onehealth Healthcare (Group) Co., Ltd. and a group of private investors have submitted a preliminary non-binding proposal to acquire NASDAQ-listed rival iKang Healthcare Group, outbidding a previous deal proposed by iKang's founder and FountainVest Partners. In an announcement, Meinian, a unit of Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd., a unit of […]

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Liberalisation and low yields enhance attraction of China’s onshore debt markets

Beijing bank pledges to invest $1tn, dwarfing private sector funds

Critics accuse fund of bending rules to accommodate Beijing