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| Emerging markets: Are the opportunities worth the challenge? |
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Spectacular growth, cheap labour, abundant natural resources, pent-up consumer demand – emerging markets have it all! Now here’s the downside…
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| Art insurance: where beauty meets the beast |
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With investors turning to art as a place to park their money hoping for high returns, behind-the-scenes, one corporate CEO is keeping tabs on the risks vs. rewards of art as an asset and what it takes to keep the formula from falling apart.
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| Islamic banking comes out of its niche |
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The global economic crisis has meant lower interest rates, higher risk, and an investor flight to safety. Can Islamic banking pick up the slack?
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| Private equity comes of age in China, India and Brazil |
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Big potential exists in these large emerging markets, but for how long?
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| Market moves: Not what you learned in B-School |
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Worried about your stocks portfolio? Amid today’s wild market gyrations, it can be hard to get a grip on what, exactly, causes moves in share prices. Here are some price-movers that are decoupled from the economy, but still have an impact.
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| How does media coverage affect share prices? Not in the way you think |
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INSEAD research suggests the best returns come from companies who never make the news.
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| Can there be financial transformation in the Middle East? |
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The Chief Economist of the Dubai International Financial Centre describes his vision for economic growth, consolidation and investment in one of the world’s most diverse regions.
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| UK economy: Trimming the fat or incipient anorexia? |
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When the new government swept into power in the UK, the mandate seemed clear: Get out of debt fast. Now, it’s not so easy.
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| When profits are private and losses are public |
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Thomas Huertas of the Financial Services Authority, regulator of the financial services industry in the UK, is a firm believer that better regulation will avoid a repetition of the recent financial meltdown.
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| Who should shoulder the cost of bank bailouts? |
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INSEAD professor of finance Theo Vermaelen makes a case for his own version of convertible capital as the panacea to government bailouts when banks fail.
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| Private equity in Asia: hunting for opportunities beyond the hot markets |
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As investment hotspots go, China and India are arguably to the private equity industry what ice cream is to a six year old with a sweet tooth. But that is why some funds in Asia are hunting for opportunities elsewhere in the region.
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| Navigating Asia's private equity markets |
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Regional players debate issues such as the lack of corporate governance and the need for due diligence during a panel discussion on private equity in Asia.
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| Bank investments in private equity: an unfair advantage? |
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A recent study co-led by INSEAD Professor Lily Fang has called into question private equity investments by bank-affiliated PE firms, that accounted for more than a quarter of all PE investments between 1983 and 2009.
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| The heat is on: private equity goes to Asia |
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After a difficult year for private equity in 2009 following the global financial crisis, many limited partners are looking to invest in Asia in search of gross returns of two to three times invested capital, if not more.
At the recent Super Return Asia PE conference in Hong Kong (Sept 27-30), China had clearly become the 'flavour of the month' for LP investors, with India a not-so-close second, in part due to valuations there.
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| 'Leave no stones unturned': due diligence in China's private equity market |
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China's budding private equity industry is booming, with new firms springing up every other day to tap the country's vast economic potential. But even as competition for deals heats up, investment firms should be wary about being too hasty in concluding their corporate due diligence.
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| Asian private equity: coming of age |
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Looking at the numbers, it's apparent that Asia's private equity star is shining bright. Assets under management increased ninefold during the last 15 years to about $283 billion in 2009 - 60 per cent of that growth came in the last five years alone.
But for all its healthy growth, only one third of global limited partnerships (LP) have allocations to Asia. So what does this mean for private equity investors seriously contending with Asia?
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