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News on Investment in China

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The right chemistry

Guangzhou government and Israeli experts see success with biotech VC fund
Jul 2, 2021 (WiC 547)

The first synagogue in China was built during the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) in the then imperial capital of Kaifeng (in today’s Henan province). It was central to a small community of Jews believed to have arrived in the city from Persia ...

A cure for cancer?

Simone Song discusses her fund and its focus on biotech breakthroughs
Feb 5, 2021 (WiC 527)

Last year was a bumper one for biotech IPOs: 81 companies raised $13.5 billion, says SVB Leerink, a US bank with a focus on healthcare and life sciences. The bulk of the funding went to developers of new cancer drugs, which made up 52% of the ...

No stranger to distress

ShoreVest tells WiC about the changing face of bad debt investing in China
Apr 10, 2020 (WiC 490)

Last year the Chinese banks disposed of an estimated Rmb1.75 trillion ($258 billion) of soured loans – a value roughly the size of Vietnam’s economy. While the size of the disposals sheds light on the scale of the challenge facing the ...

Tasty investments

WiC talks with China’s first food-tech venture capital firm
Nov 22, 2019 (WiC 475)

Shenzhen-listed MYS Group was formerly a packaging company. But since its announcement that it was venturing into hemp-based artificial meat production last month, its shares surged to a four-month high in a matter of days. This enthusiasm ...

Shan’s cultural evolution

Investor discusses his new book about his ‘wasted’ years in Mao’s last decade
Apr 5, 2019 (WiC 447)

Life is a winding path. That is particularly true for Shan Weijian, who, before becoming one of the most successful financiers in Asia and a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, was among the 16 million urban youths ...

It’s going to double: Machin

Canada pension fund CEO tells WiC that China will rise to 20% of portfolio
Sep 28, 2018 (WiC 426)

For decades the most famous foreigner in China was Norman Bethune, a Canadian doctor about whom Mao Zedong wrote a famous eulogy. Bethune saved countless lives during the Japanese invasion and subsequent Chinese civil war, thanks to his medical ...

Independent economist predicts banking crisis in China
Jan 22, 2016 (WiC 310)

Shanghai-based Jonathan Anderson has been described by the Financial Times as “one of the most thoughtful China analysts”. In recent years he has been cautiously optimistic about the Chinese economy. But earlier this month his research firm ...

A durable rally?

Why H-shares are hotting up in Hong Kong
Apr 17, 2015 (WiC 277)

Han Ching Choong is co-founder of Kriya Capital, a fund that specialises in China-themed investing. Between August 2012 and last December, her portfolio was up more than 100% net of fees. Below, she discusses the recent surge in trading volumes ...

Selling Shiraz in Shaanxi

Meet the man who is selling Aussie wine in the hinterlands of China
Nov 8, 2013 (WiC 215)

Blame China. That was the message from Pernod Ricard a fortnight ago as it warned of falling profits. The spirits maker – which owns brands including Martell cognac – said Chinese demand had slowed substantially in the wake of President Xi ...

A Chinese education

Why a Scottish tycoon is sending British entrepreneurs to China
Nov 16, 2012 (WiC 172)

F or a classic tale of entrepreneurial pluck, look no further than Sir Tom Hunter. According to the Sunday Times, his big break was in 1984 when he analysed the returns on his father’s market stall in Scotland and saw that sales of trainers (or ...

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