Chinese Companies Can Get 'Beat Up' Abroad
China’s cross-border deals can go sour without local knowledge, according to Mandarin Capital, which has facilitated 10 deals between…
The Future of China's Private Equity
Alberto Forchielli on how private equity must adapt to a China that is no longer the workshop of the…
The shipping tsunami
Background On 17 February 2012 the website www.manager-magazin.de announced that Hamburg-based closed-end investment fund LF 16, created by fund…
Briefing: Crisis Potential in the Chinese Financial Sector
Summary Since 2008, substantial debt-financed stimulus investments and repeated rounds of monetary easing led to a sharp increased in the…
Italian Paradoxology – A Stranger in a Strange Land
“Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship” – Peter Drucker. All through the international press and international investor communities…
The new bubble. After the real estate crisis of 2008, the creeping crisis of shipping finance.
In the autumn of 2012, when the German press reported that more than 250 closed-end funds that invest in…
Europe's Enterprise Zombielimpics
There’s this great comic strip of Dutch cartoonist Toon. During five frames a turtle slowly shuffles toward a tree…
China's Short Term Economic Fix
China is injecting resources into its internal market, causing a rubber-band effect. Putting money in and then taking it…
Mandarin Capital Nears First Close of EUR1B Fund
Mandarin Capital Partners , the Sino-European cross-border private equity fund, is close to a 500 million…
Italian Road to China's Suntech Fraud Was Paved With Warnings
(Reuters) – A major lender to China’s Suntech Power Holdings, a solar panel maker which has been stung by…