China’s $1.7 trillion hangover

China’s $1.7 trillion hangover

Up to 40% of China’s $1.7 trillion LGFV loans are at high risk of default. What’s a panicking Beijing to do?

The truth about Asian investment banking

October 2007

Asia market round up: Fang Fenglei moves on

by John Ferry

The allure of private equity to senior banking figures is well documented: why run a business for a bank when you can run a fund for yourself?


Now the attraction has prised Fang Fenglei, the man with arguably the most generous job arrangement in Asian investment banking, from his day job.

Fang is chairman of Goldman Sachs Gao Hua, the joint venture that enables Goldman to play a part in domestic Chinese investment banking, including underwriting IPOs on the Shenzhen and Shanghai stock exchanges. Goldman owns only...


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