ASEAN Venture Capital Blog Volume 3: Improving Enterprise Capital and Private Equity Scorecard for Southeast Asia August 14, 2014 The private equity and Southeast Asia Venture Capital are experiencing a rapid evolution and growth as 2014 provides attractive and markedly improved fundamentals for investors. The broader Asia Pacific area is the second most attractive area for private fund investment (F1). Element to that, Southeast Asia's attractiveness has been driven by (1) Regional heavyweights China and India experience decelerating increase and (2) China is fighting with decreased liquidity for its previously solid IPO marketplace resulting from the restrictions to its share class local currency marketplace 2013. Exemplifying this is the leading indicator of foreign direct capital flows. Total FDI in the combined markets of Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Philippines surpassed China for the second time (F2). Figure 1. Regional PE Attractiveness Figure 2. FDI: China vs ASEAN-5 Yield expectations are also elevated with Asia outpacing the developed markets by yield expectations -5 year horizon (F3).
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