What's the appeal of spin-offs in general and in Mainland China and Hong Kong SAR, in particular? KPMG partner Mike Tang, CFA, CPA, shares his insights.
The potential advantages of private market investments, specifically venture equity and venture debt investing, extend to five dimensions of performance.
How do special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) serve public investors?
Does a firm’s competitive advantage tend to endure longer in some sectors than others?
Private capital fund managers do not expect their portfolio businesses to report a profit.
Many of today's unicorns have strong growth prospects, but they often have uncertain paths to profitability.
Privatization appears to be slowly rearing its head in the Middle East again, mostly in the economic plans of the GCC countries and in Egypt. To be clear, this is not because attitudes have changed. Divestment from state-owned enterprises is seen as a last resort in the Gulf countries in light of the fiscal tightening.
The market for IPOs, traditionally a useful barometer of the collective appetite of investors, suggests a slowdown is at hand in the United States.
Growing tensions in Iraq may have temporarily dampened the mood of equity investors over the past week, but as we approach the year’s midpoint, most major stock markets remain near record highs.
The process for initial public offerings (IPOs) is one of the most opaque areas of the market and is ripe for reform.