The Luxury British shoemaker Jimmy Choo has announced its plans to float its shares on the London Stock Exchange in next month as a strategic move to drive expansion across Asia, especially in mainland China and other Asian emerging markets such as Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea.
Richard Cayne, CEO of Asia Wealth Group Holdings believes that, “There are many challenges in transitioning wealth from post-World War Two entrepreneurs who created wealth and who are now in their 60’s, 70s, and 80’s. These wealth creators face significant challenges in effectively transitioning their wealth and ‘letting go’ to their successors.” Demographics and unprecedented … Read more
Asia First is the first place to call for anyone interested in investing in property in South East Asia, The company sources highly lucrative real estate investments and is at the forefront of many prominent developments in the region. The tropical beaches and idyllic landscapes in the region. The tropical beaches and idyllic landscapes found … Read more
The rising Chinese economy has created a new super-wealthy class in China, even if this only comprises 1% of its population, it will still create millions of new wealthy people in China. One only needs to see the increase of Chinese overseas students in the UK, Canada, USA, Australia to see how much wealth has … Read more
The appeal of Chinese market to overseas property developers and agencies is obvious. Economically, the rising price of housing, the thorough urbanization and the more and more severe control measures is cutting down the profits of domestic properties, especially in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. The stagnant economy in EU, the quantitative easing in USA … Read more
In the State of the Union address of February 12, 2013, President Obama gave what seemed like an inspiring speech that was mostly focused on rebuilding America’s economy. He laid out intentions of bringing jobs back America, providing tax incentives for small businesses, beefing up job skills education, and a myriad of other proposals all … Read more
A hedge fund is a common name for a collective investment scheme, designed to pool investors’ money for a specific purpose. Just to give you a flavor of what we are talking about, here are a few things you could potentially do with an offshore hedge fund: Raise $5 million between 30-40 investors to develop a … Read more
Mongolia is landlocked between two most powerful countries – China and Russia – and is strategically positioned to supply raw materials for Chinese, Korean, Japanese and eastern Russian development. Mongolia is being transformed by the incipient exploitation of its high grade natural resources, located close to the world’s biggest consumer. The country can already deliver high grade coal … Read more
Although some institutional and ultra-high net worth investors in Asia have known of hedge fund investments for some time, and have been known to invest in them since the mid 1990s, the practice has been limited. Fund-of-hedge-funds promoters have sold their fund-of-fund products with a caché of exclusivity and secrecy, relying on the old adage “ask … Read more
Funds of hedge funds (FOFs) have become popular investment vehicles for institutional investors and wealthy individuals alike who want exposure to hedge funds but lack the necessary platforms or resources to understand complicated hedge fund strategies, conduct thorough due diligence, perform meaningful risk management, and other operational and administrative activities. These additional skills provided by FOFs … Read more