Portelet on CNBC Asia (16/12/09)
There is a big growth opportunity for biomass in Southeast Asia, notes Per Dahlen, partner at Portelet Asia. He sheds more light on investing green, with CNBC's Sri Jegarajah. View CNBC Asia's Video Clip : ...
Portelet initiates triple bottom line fund for rural Asia (15/11/2009)
Portelet commenced the placement of its new investment initiative, Sustainable Rural Advancement Asia Fund (SRAAF), a social investment scheme aimed at reducing poverty, improving the environment and creating risk adjusted economic returns. read
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Portelet on CNBC Asia (08/11/09)
Per Dahlen, partner at Portelet Asia says the region has potential to produce much more green energy, and that Southeast Asia could someday be a net exporter of clean fuel. He talks to CNBC's Martin Soong. View CNBC Asia's Video Clip : ...
Finding
Opportunities in Distress (23/03/09)
The global meltdown has rendered many companies distressed due
to excess leverage, operating losses, and weak management. However,
PE firms are fast in capturing this opportunity. They have raised
funds specifically for distressed investing and will invest
by way of acquiring distressed companies or debt of such companies,
providing finance to companies that lack bank options and investing
in turnarounds. read
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Carlyle
sees tough road for PE, industry must evolve (04/02/09)
Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein, in SuperReturn private
equity conference in Berlin, said that in spite of a difficult
year ahead, successful deals could have high returns and also
predicted that banks will lend more in the latter half of 2009. read more...
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Indian PE Funds On Road To Raise $24B, Can They Close Them (10/12/08)
In spite of the contraction in capital raising activities in
2008, private equity funds' interest in India is not waning.
There are about 117 pan-Asia private equity funds - which have
India as one of its geographies - on road targeting to raise
an aggregate capital of USD 59.2bn in 2009, according to Preqin,
a research firm tracking PE fund raising globally. read
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India
Tops LP’s Ranking of Emerging Private Equity Markets
(10/12/08)
According to the Coller Capital's latest survey which captured
the views of institutional investor in 102 private equity
investors around the world, limited partner’s (LPs)
believe that India will be the most attractive investment
destination for General Partners (GPs) over the next three
years read more...
DIFC to Become Hub for Family Offices
(02|09|08)
The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) announced
new regulations to encourage family businesses to establish
Single Family Offices (SFOs) at DIFC. read more...
ANALYSIS
- Private equity makes inroads in India (22|08|08)
Private equity is gaining greater acceptance in India where
rising borrowing costs and a tanking stock market have shut
down other means of funding, forcing family-owned businesses
to tap a source they had once shunned. read more...
Temasek
Holdings increases its investments in the financial services
industry (04|01|08)
The Singapore investment company Temasek Holdings continues
making strategic investments in the financial services industry.
After increasing its stake in read more...
Singapore
ranks tops in the business world (18|12|07)
The World Bank has released its global rankings for doing
business in the year 2007. Country number one for business
is Singapore, leaving behind last year’s frontrunner read more...
$10
billion energy and software project in India (17|12|07)
India, one of the world's two fastest-growing major economies,
continues attracting the overseas investors. This time it
is the Bahrain – based investment bank read more...
