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Archive for December 2011
December 2011: Investing and Joint Venturing Offshore
Investing and Joint Venturing Offshore – this month’s theme “My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international.” - Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud, Member of the Saudi Royal Family Overseas markets can provide opportunities for business growth and/or enhanced investment returns. Moving beyond your home territory has the potential to open new [...]
Investing and Joint Venturing Offshore
Chris Moor, Director, Trugrade There already exists a large body of information about investing offshore and the various methods for doing this, including joint ventures. This article will focus on some of the practical aspects of doing business offshore from the perspective of a person who has been involved in establishing, running, restructuring and closing joint [...]
Investing in Asia
James White, Analyst, Investment Markets Research, Colonial First State Since 1988 the MSCI Asia ex-Japan equity index has enjoyed four bull markets where the index has more than doubled. Each of these bull markets have seen annual asset price growth of greater than 27%. In total the index has risen three times at an annual growth [...]
Ethical Due Diligence: Protecting Your Offshore Investments
Danny Burrows, Partner, Tradeworthy Is your offshore investment or joint-venture due diligence report giving you everything you need to know? What are the key non-financial risks that can undermine an otherwise robust business case? This is the critical gap filled by ethical due diligence for offshore investments. As Australian companies take greater and deeper steps [...]
Investing and Joint Venturing Offshore
Raymond Daly, Business Manager, Invensys Rail Pty Ltd Introduction Investing in a business venture overseas is an activity which should be undertaken only after a clear and defined objective is identified, the market opportunity assessed and a full understanding of the resource in human and financial terms is understood and established. International business is not [...]