Michelle Phillips

The Securities and Exchange Board of India released draft regulations for developing India’s REIT market, a move expected to boost real estate investment in the country.

Chinese authorities have completed feasibility studies on REIT regulations, bringing the long anticipated investment vehicles a step closer to arriving.

A standardized system of real estate regulation could create a more level playing field for the country’s developers and may also increase confidence in its real estate investors.

China’s regulators have yet to approve final details for the Qianhai currency hub, where qualified GPs can take advantage of liberalized cross-border RMB transactions.

Just a month after the CSRC released its own private equity fund registration policy for public comment, the NDRC has come up with its own competing registration requirements.

Provisions in India's Budget 2013 are aimed at attracting foreign investment, but ambiguities regarding private equity taxation have left recurring questions unanswered.

LPs tend to hold the upper hand before a capital commitment is made to a fund, but afterward the LP-GP relationship becomes much more symbiotic, delegates heard at the PERE Summit: Asia in Hong Kong.

China’s fund managers and institutional investors are joining national and regional PE associations in order to get a jump on proposed rules and have a voice in regulatory matters.

A draft regulation released for public comment by the CSRC aims to provide clarity for PE and VC fund registration in China. It also shifts PE regulatory power to the CSRC.

A group of US PE firms is suing Deloitte, alleging fraudulent auditing of a Chinese company, the latest in a string of accounting troubles raising concerns about China audits.