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Recently, the Shanghai authorities have opened up the Qualified Foreign Limited Partners programme by allowing overseas RMB holders to make direct onshore investments using their RMB funds.  This new avenue, also referred to as the RMB Qualified Foreign...

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For a long time, China has closely monitored its insurance capital by restricting entities that were allowed to manage it and the eligible asset classes in which it could be invested.  Now, eager to liberalise the deployment of insurance capital, the China...

In a recently released survey of asset management professionals conducted by Clifford Chance and AsianInvestor, three key themes emerged. Asian investors are diversifying away from equities, the marked decline of Europe as a source of assets and as an investment...

Over the past years, investors in private equity funds have succeeded in negotiating more favourable economic terms than has traditionally been the case.  This is partially a result of a more difficult global fundraising environment as well as increased...

On 28 December 2012, China announced the amendment of its Securities Investment Funds Law which for the first time, regulates privately-placed securities investment funds.  The Amended Law provides a safe harbour for private placements while also imposes...

With a view to attracting more global institutional investors to participate in China's securities market, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange has recently introduced changes to the foreign exchange regime governing QFIIs.  These changes include...

Leading international law firm Clifford Chance today announces the addition of Ying White to its Beijing office as a partner in the Corporate practice. She will focus on both onshore and offshore funds formation for private equity and hedge funds, RMB funds, and...

Since its inception in late 2002 and UBS AG being granted the first Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (QFII) licence in mid-2003, China's QFII regime has evolved rapidly attracting a wide range of international institutions from sizable securities...

In March 2013, China issued a new set of measures to govern onshore securities investment by Renminbi qualified foreign institutional investors (RQFII).  The new measures now expand the types of entities eligible to apply for RQFII licence.  Previous...