“Hedge funds and Asian buyers, especially from China, are analysing mining companies and agricultural businesses including dairy, cattle and wheat farms that are in distress with a view to take controlling or minority stakes. Turnaround and insolvency experts, lawyers, bankers and hedge funds themselves say they expect the mining...

Screen Daily reports today that “the stand-off over outstanding payments owed to Hollywood studios by China appears to nearing resolution in light of comments made by MPAA head Chris Dodd. Hollywood studios said they have not been paid a share of box office by Chinese officials since last autumn,...

Corporate Misgovernance ? Cape out of range The Sydney Morning Herald  Business Day reports this morning has Cape Range ( devised a fool-proof strategy for making sure numbers fall favourably at its special meeting of shareholders this week, or has it just forgotten to pay the phone bill? The...

Senior investment bankers expect a busy end to 2013 for floats, with a rush of initial public offerings (IPO) expected before Christmas, according to The Australian Financial Review today. SingTel-Optus’s satellite division is among the most closely-watched potential floats, valued at about $2 billion. SingTel is reportedly mulling taking the...

This week Mines and Money  Group on Linked In presented  4 Perspectives on Chinese Outbound Investment as it relates to  Mining Investment and Capital Raising but it has underlying themes for every enterprise looking to China. This series of interviews comes from Mines and Money Beijing, in which M&M asked...

Australia was the largest and one of the fastest growing project finance markets in the world in 2012, according to Thomson Reuters Project Finance Review.1 Australian-based projects secured US$42 billion of financing during 2012, a sizable increase of 70 per cent compared to 2011. Its value accounted for over...

We have identified a investment opportunity in the Financial Services sector with strong upside potential (since mandated by the company on 22 August 2013) . Company has proven technology and large addressable global markets and is at early revenue stage. The soft commercial roll-out of a suite of new platform...

Organised by the Australian Chamber of Commerce Hong Kong and Macau ’s  Finance , Legal and Taxation Committee the Australian Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Cocktail event for Australians prevalent in financial services is being hosted by Wespac on Thurs 5 September 2013   Sean Rothsey  is a Committee Member  of   the Australian Chamber...

Hong Kong prohibits naked short selling. Section 170 of the Securities and Futures Ordinance (SFO) makes it an offence for a person to sell securities at or through a recognized stock market (the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (SEHK)) unless at the time he or she sells them a.he...

In 1988 George Wang, “wanting to go somewhere for more freedom,” was contemplating whether to study English in Australia or Canada. Wang, who grew up on Hainan, often referred to China’s Hawaii, decided to ditch Canada in favour of Australia because, he says, “Australia and Hainan are similar”. Both...