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...Assets across its hedge fund and private equity businesses reached $90bn....
...The amount raised was more than twice as much as any previous IPO on the Ho Chi Minh stock exchange Warburg Pincus, the private equity group, will be one of the big winners in the offering, with its 4.8tn...
...Mr Anandan, an eight-year veteran of Google and a seasoned angel investor, is joining private equity firm Sequoia Capital India as a managing director....
...Reginald Tan has also joined Schroders as head of multi-asset product for Southeast Asia. Mr Tan, who will be based in Singapore, previously worked for Amundi, the French asset manager....
...The company, which is valued at $3bn after investments from Chinese technology giant Tencent and private equity houses KKR and Warburg Pincus, said on Friday that the acquisitions represented a “significant...
...When Jeffrey Perlman, Southeast Asia head of Warburg Pincus, suggested to his New York partners that they commit $200m for a minority stake in Vincom Retail, a mall developer in Vietnam, there was some scepticism...
...The Southeast Asian ecommerce and gaming group has priced its shares at $15 a share, above the indicated range of $12-$14....
...The ASX has been gearing up with other technical advancements, including testing blockchain as a possible system for clearing and settling trades in the Australian equity market....
...● Pimco has hired Abhi Shroff as senior vice-president and head of Southeast Asia institutional business development....
...• Principal Global Investors has hired Celestine Khoo as head of Southeast Asia, a newly created role....
...Asian equities drifted amid light trading after Beijing signalled it would embrace more “accommodative” fiscal and monetary policies, while oil prices rebounded from an 11-year low....
...“Southeast Asian economies, for example, are realising that quality of life is more than just about economic benefits....
...All the securities listed on its markets continued to trade on the myriad of rival exchanges, dark pools, alternative venues and bank trading desks that make up the modern-day US equity market structure....
...On Wednesday, Yusuf Alireza called recent comments by Michael Dee, the former head of Morgan Stanley’s operations in Southeast Asia, “ill-informed”, “inaccurate” and “disingenuous” in an open letter....
...Yezdi Chinoy, who was previously head of compliance for southeast and south Asia at Allianz Global Investors, succeeds Terence Wong, who becomes deputy chairman of Generali Investments Asia....
...The move is a bet on the prospect that rapid urbanisation in southeast Asia will accelerate in Vietnam, where a middle class is emerging in the country’s two main cities of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, the...
...“DBS turned in yet another record-breaking year, with return on equity at a five-year high, notwithstanding the challenging operating environment,” Mr Gupta said....
...Oaktree initiated a restructuring that included a change in its management team, a renewed focus on London and the southeast of England, and an expansion in its brokering division....
...The move follows a $1bn sale of half the company by Genting, the southeast Asian gaming group, to Apollo in January 2008. Genting still owns half of Norwegian Cruise Line....
...equity firms....
...The UK property market has become increasingly polarised during the past two years, with prices in London and the southeast rising steadily, in contrast to stagnation elsewhere in the country....
...The Gruma equity stake is worth about 5.1bn pesos ($400m) exclusive of the joint ventures....
...The current sellers are keen to divest the physical assets along with the brands, meaning buyers are more likely to come from private equity or trade....
...Equity markets are nascent or non-existent in the other four members – Brunei, Cambodia, Laos and Burma. The link will not create a single Asean stock exchange, even in the long term....
...push to tap Vietnam’s thirst for premium beer has been disrupted by a messy legal dispute involving Anheuser-Busch InBev’s former local distributor, a high-profile American businessman and a US private equity...
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