A Vietnam-focused private equity investment fund management company plans to revive efforts to launch an entirely new fund to invest in the country’s rapidly growing consumer sector. Chris Freund, Mekong Capital’s managing partner, said after completing several more exits of its current investments, his company expected to launch a new fund targeting $150 million in new capital, sourced from foreign... 

Dragon Capital, the largest institutional investor in the Vietnamese stock market, is raising up to US$100 million in a new fund that will invest in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Its Chief Executive Dominic Scriven said on February 29 that the group looks for investment opportunities as the Vietnamese government embarks on a major effort to privatize state-owned assets. “We are hoping to reach... 

Observers have pointed out a noteworthy thing on the gold market: the gap between the domestic and world’s price, which was very big at 2.5 million dong per tael, has been narrowed to 1-1.2 million dong. Is this because investors have got tired of investing in gold and left the market? Money leaving gold market for stock market? A director of a securities company has affirmed that some loyal clients... 

Foreign information technology firms and investment funds are interested in venturing into Vietnamese IT and software development companies. This was what shared by many businessmen, investment consultants and managers at the Super Investors Day 2012 held in HCMC on Thursday. Chu Tien Dung, chairman of Quang Trung Software City Development Co. Ltd., said many foreign IT and software development firms... 

DI Asian Industrial Fund (DIAIF) is seen becoming a strategic shareholder of Japan Vietnam Medical Instrument Joint Stock Company (JVC) through a bid for 10 million shares, or a 31.1% stake. The fund in a statement released on Tuesday said this is its second investment in Vietnam after its buying last year of a 25% stake in dairy processor Nutifood. DIAIF will also send experts to help JVC develop... 

Cash-rich foreign portfolio investors are making the most of the current attractive Vietnamese stocks valuations, but it remains to be seen how long they will stay at the party. Vietnamese stocks valuations, but it remains to be seen how long they will stay at the party. Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE) statistics show that this year to date, foreign portfolio investors have returned as net buyers... 

Japan’s venture capital funds are paying increasingly more attention to Vietnamese businesses, particularly in the fields of medicine and information technology, according to Japan’s leading business daily The Nikkei. Recently, Dream Incubator (DI) Inc and the Orix Group bought 31 percent of the shares in the Japan Vietnam Medical Instrument Co. Ltd, through the DI Asian Industrial Fund LP. They... 

The year 2012 is believed to be one more difficult year of the national economy. Therefore, where to inject money in proves to be an inextricable question for many investors. Gold, real estate, stocks, dollars or dong deposits – all the investment channels remain open. Gold always attractive? While 2011 was a bad year for the real estate market, it was a lucky year for gold investors. The gold price... 

The circular that guides the establishment and management over open investment funds has been issued, which is hoped to create a “set of new investment tools”. Especially, close funds are allowed to shift into open funds, which will help ease the pressure on the market when the funds are due for dissolution. The circular has been posted on the official website of the State Securities Commission... 

Foreign portfolio investment capital flow to Vietnam has nearly stopped, investment funds have been trying to sell securities, while there is no sign showing that they would come back. The bad debt ratio of the total outstanding loans of the banking system rose from 2.5 percent in late 2010 to 3.5 percent in September 2011. The ratio is believed to increase further to reach the highest peak in 2012....