| Asset managers shouldn’t expect ‘easy money’ from China Investment Corp., even though the world’s fourth largest sovereign wealth fund last week reported a rise in net profit and a healthy increase in its top-line assets that grew to $652 billion in 2013 from $575 billion.
The giant sovereign wealth fund, which owns private equity firm Citic Capital, said its net profit increased to $86.9 million in 2013 from $77.7 billion a year before; it also reported a 9.3% return on its overseas investments in 2013, a decline from 10.6% in 2012. But China-based consulting firm Z-Ben Advisors cautions that the general “good news…may not be felt by asset managers attempting to win their mandates.”..............................................Full Article: Source
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