Investment Blog

According to Chinese media, 70% of the country’s total outbound foreign direct investment (OFDI) is from state-owned enterprises, valued at RMB4.9 trillion (C$970 billion). The China Institute at the University of Alberta’s China-Canada Investment Tracker’s database records 88% of total Chinese OFDI into Canada as coming… Read More »Update on State-Owned Enterprise Investment Overseas and in Canada

According to a publicly released announcement by the Shenzhen, China-based O-Net Communications Group Ltd., the company was blocked from purchasing the Montreal-based ITF Technologies Inc. by a Canadian federal government order in council on national security grounds. The investment, which was completed on January 30, 2015, was… Read More »Cabinet Decision Leads to Blocking of Chinese O-Net’s Acquisition of Montreal’s ITF

The major Chinese Internet firm Tencent Holdings Ltd. has invested US$50 million (C$65 million) into Kik Interactive, a social messaging app company based in Waterloo, Ontario. According to Kik, the company’s total valuation is now C$1 billion. Tencent owns WeChat and Tencent QQ, messaging services with… Read More »China’s Tencent Invests $50 Million in Canada’s Kik Interactive

Recently released data shows that China is now the second largest foreign investor into New Zealand, and the years 2013 and 2014 saw NZ$1.9 billion (C$1.7 billion) in new Chinese investment make up 14% of New Zealand’s total inbound foreign direct investment, according to KPMG’s Foreign… Read More »China Second Largest Investor into New Zealand, Canada the Largest

With growing public and political attention on foreign real estate investment in Canada, the China Institute at the University of Alberta (CIUA) has released a paper, written by Kerry Sun, that examines issues surrounding the controversy over foreign real estate investment, particularly from China, in… Read More »New Research Explores What’s Behind Foreign Investment in Canadian Real Estate

Citizenship and Immigration Canada numbers indicate that investor immigrant approvals in Canada for investors from Hong Kong and Mainland China declined by 13.6% between 2013 and 2014, with 5,116 approved investor migrants in 2014, the lowest since 2007. The data, courtesy of the South China Morning… Read More »Number of Chinese Investor Migrants to Canada Declines

According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development’s UNCTAD World Investment Report 2015, Hong Kong was the second largest source of FDI outflows in 2014, ahead of Mainland China and surpassed by only the United States. The United States’ new FDI outflows amounted to… Read More »Hong Kong the Second Largest Source of FDI Outflows in 2014

According to a joint study by the Mercator Institute for China Studies and the Rhodium Group, entitled Chinese FDI in Europe and Germany: Preparing for a New Era of Chinese Capital, China’s foreign assets will triple in five years: China will have US$20 trillion (C$25 trillion)… Read More »China to Become One of World’s Biggest Investors, Stepping up Global Investment

Spending US$28.6 billion (C$36.3 billion) to purchase 16% of all units purchased by foreign customers, Chinese buyers of American real estate now lead other foreign buyers in terms of both dollar volume and units, according to the National Association of Realtors’ 2015 Profile of Home Buying… Read More »Chinese Now Largest Foreign Buyers of US Homes in Terms of Dollar Volume and Units

On June 17, the Australian Minister for Trade and Investment Andrew Robb and Chinese Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng signed the final text of the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement (ChAFTA), precisely seven months after negotiations were concluded in November 2014. The agreement will undergo Parliamentary review prior… Read More »China and Australia Sign Free Trade Agreement