Investment Blog

There were 2,378,000 US dollar millionaire households in mainland China in 2013 – an increase of 82% from the previous year – according to the Boston Consulting Group’s Riding a Wave of Growth: Global Wealth 2014. Japan had just over half the number of millionaire households,… Read More »Dollar Millionaire Households in China Number Two Million: Could Mean US$360 Billion into Global Housing Markets

The China-Canada Investment Tracker dataset provides a bottom-up perspective on investment flows from China to Canada. As an alternative to official Chinese and Canadian foreign equity investment statistics, reflected in the capital accounts of both countries’ balance of payments (BOP),[1] our transaction-based dataset provides the following… Read More »Methodology Note on the China-Canada Investment Tracker Database

According to the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada’s 2015 National Opinion Poll: Canadian Views on Asian Investment, 49% of Canadians are opposed to Chinese foreign investment into Canada. Favourable views towards Chinese investment were held by only 42% of Canadians, as opposed to 78% for Japanese investment,… Read More »49% of Canadians Polled Oppose Chinese Foreign Investment, Many Overestimate its Extent

According to the 10th Demystifying Chinese Investment in Australia report by KPMG and the University of Sydney, 46% of 2014’s new Chinese investment in Australia went to commercial real estate transactions, a marked increase from 2013’s 14%. The report also indicates that 2014 saw private Chinese firms… Read More »46% of Chinese Investment in Australia in Commercial Real Estate

China and India have recently signed memorandums of understandings (MOUs) and agreements worth more than US$22 billion, according to India’s Ministry of External affairs. These 26 MOUs and agreements, signed during Indian Prime Minister Modi’s May 2015 visit to China, include a US$2.5 billion financing… Read More »Indian Prime Minister’s Visit to China Yields $22 Billion Worth of MOUs

Chinese finance to Latin America and the Caribbean surpassed that from the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank combined in 2014, and over half of the region’s new greenfield projects were comprised of new foreign direct investment from China in 2013, according to the… Read More »China Invested 54% of Latin America and the Caribbean’s 2013 New Greenfield Foreign Direct Investment

According to the Australian Government’s recently released Foreign Investment Review Board Annual Report 2013-14, China is now the largest source of new foreign investment in Australia, passing the USA. During the year ended June 30, 2014, Chinese (excluding Hong Kong) foreign investment into Australia totaled… Read More »Chinese Investment in Australia

According to the latest update on March 26 on the Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (QFII) quota awards released by China’s foreign exchange regulator, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), Fidelity Investments Management (Hong Kong) was granted a combined quota of US$1.2 billion to invest… Read More »China Lifts QFII Quota Limit, Signalling More Reforms on Foreign Fund Investments

To capture the latest patterns of Chinese investment transactions in Canada, the research team at the China Institute has completed a number of updates to the China-Canada Investment Tracker database, which currently covers transactions between 1993 and 2014. By employing refined search parameters to identify… Read More »Dataset Update Provides Evidence of Diversification in Chinese Investment in Canada

EDMONTON—Today, the China Institute at the University of Alberta (CIUA) launched the China-Canada Investment Tracker, an online interactive visualization, as part of an ongoing project to study Chinese investments in Canada and around the world. Users are able to view the value and number of… Read More »China Institute Announces Launch of the China-Canada Investment Tracker