Investment Blog

According to a Government of British Columbia news release, 11 agreements, valued in the billions, were signed between BC and Guangdong companies during Guangdong Party Secretary Hu Chunhua’s visit in May. From May 8-9, 2016, over 200 government and business representatives from Guangdong visited BC, creating… Read More »Guangdong Province of China Visit Drives New Business Deals

China is now the Number 1 foreign investor in American residential real estate, having made more new investments than Canada in 2015, according to the Asia Society and Rosen Consulting Group’s Breaking Ground: Chinese Investment in U.S. Real Estate. Overall, Chinese residential property purchases in the… Read More »Chinese Surpass Canadians as Top Foreign Buyer of US Residential Real Estate

The market for Vancouver housing is being driven to high prices by foreign Chinese buyers, argues a paper by Simon Fraser University’s Josh Gordon, entitled Vancouver’s Housing Affordability Crisis: Causes, Consequences and Solutions. The author states that foreign buyers are identified as “this is where the… Read More »Foreign Buyers Impacting Vancouver Home Attainability, Study Claims

According to a Government of Ontario news release, Ontario can expect C$220 million in Chinese investment following an 11-day trade mission led by the Ontario government. The mission promoted Ontario as an attractive investment jurisdiction through roundtables with over 100 attendees, and promoted Ontario as a business… Read More »Ontario Government, Businesses Net C$220 Million in Mission to China

The Canadian energy sector is now among the least favoured sectors for Chinese investment, with only CAD$400 thousand invested in the first quarter of 2016, which marks the lowest quarter for new Chinese investment into the Canadian energy sector since Q3 2010. That quarter had… Read More »Chinese Investment in Canadian Energy Sector Hits Five-Year Low

A Chinese owner of Canadian oil sands projects, Sinopec Group, has given a 70% stake of its overseas upstream unit to two state-owned asset firms, a move which is part of efforts to reduce the operating and financing costs of Sinopec’s overseas operations. While the shift in… Read More »Sinopec Shifts Global Oil Assets, Restructures Canadian Upstream Unit

According to the 11th Demystifying Chinese Investment in Australia report by KPMG and The University of Sydney, Chinese investment into Australia expanded into new areas such as healthcare in 2015, while the flow of Chinese investment grew by 59.5% in AUD terms, or 32.9% in USD terms,… Read More »Chinese Investment in Australia Expands, Increases, and Shows the New Normal

On April 4, 2016, Ambassador Yang Yanyi, Head of the Chinese Mission to the EU, gave the keynote opening remarks at the workshop “Understanding China’s FDI and Global Supply Chains: Europe and the World” during the Worldwide Universities Network’s Conference and Annual General Meeting. The… Read More »PRC Ambassador to EU’s Speech Highlights FDI, Its Features, and Supply Chains

On March 31, China’s Anbang Insurance Group Co ended its move to add Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc to its assets, withdrawing its US$14 billion (C$18 billion) offer for the chain. Maryland-based Marriot International had offered US$400 million less than Anbang, which two years ago purchased… Read More »Anbang Fails to Close Starwood Courtship

According to Xinhua, 200 Chinese companies are investing in Russia’s Primorsky Region, a province nestled between the Sea of Japan and Northeast China. During an interview with Xinhua, the region’s governor cited agriculture, manufacturing, and trade as industries with Chinese activity, while also noting that… Read More »Russian Far East Will See More Chinese Investment