AFG Venture Group Dispatches
Corporate advisory and consultancy in Australia, South East Asia and India.
Lindley Edwards at the Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network
AFG Venture Group CEO Lindley Edwards was recently invited on the panel for the Sydney Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network event. The Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network community is an invitation-only, global community established to bring together female business leaders to share best practices within the unique and challenging world of running high-growth entrepreneurships. Further information is available [...]
December 2011: Investing and Joint Venturing Offshore
Investing and Joint Venturing Offshore – this month’s theme “My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international.” - Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud, Member of the Saudi Royal Family Overseas markets can provide opportunities for business growth and/or enhanced investment returns. Moving beyond your home territory has the potential to open new [...]
Investing and Joint Venturing Offshore
Chris Moor, Director, Trugrade There already exists a large body of information about investing offshore and the various methods for doing this, including joint ventures. This article will focus on some of the practical aspects of doing business offshore from the perspective of a person who has been involved in establishing, running, restructuring and closing joint [...]
Investing in Asia
James White, Analyst, Investment Markets Research, Colonial First State Since 1988 the MSCI Asia ex-Japan equity index has enjoyed four bull markets where the index has more than doubled. Each of these bull markets have seen annual asset price growth of greater than 27%. In total the index has risen three times at an annual growth [...]
Ethical Due Diligence: Protecting Your Offshore Investments
Danny Burrows, Partner, Tradeworthy Is your offshore investment or joint-venture due diligence report giving you everything you need to know? What are the key non-financial risks that can undermine an otherwise robust business case? This is the critical gap filled by ethical due diligence for offshore investments. As Australian companies take greater and deeper steps [...]
Investing and Joint Venturing Offshore
Raymond Daly, Business Manager, Invensys Rail Pty Ltd Introduction Investing in a business venture overseas is an activity which should be undertaken only after a clear and defined objective is identified, the market opportunity assessed and a full understanding of the resource in human and financial terms is understood and established. International business is not [...]
The Real Commitment – Joint Ventures for International Business Success
Ian Murray, Executive Director, Australian Institute of Export and John Kell, Partner, Hunt & Hunt Ian Murray, Executive Director, Australian Institute of Export: From my experience most joint venture partnerships work well, but in saying that, some joint ventures do fail and the cost of failure can be substantial. Unlike an agency or distribution arrangement [...]
Asia – Stepping Stone to Growth
James Meares, Principal, James Meares Consulting Pty Ltd Geographic diversification is basically a strategy choice that most successful companies will make somewhere in their history. In simple marketing terms, you are successful in one market, so you aim to extend your business into a new market offshore. Sometimes considered a lower risk than developing new [...]
Emerging Markets as Investment Targets
Glen Robinson, Managing Director – Asia Advisory, AFG Venture Group INTRODUCTION The developing Asian region probably covers almost 30 countries, about 57% of the world’s population, which is growing at twice the rate of the rest of the world, consumes about 70% of the world’s steel, and about the same percentage of the world cement [...]
Making an Investment in an Emerging Market
Glen Robinson, Managing Director – Asia Advisory, AFG Venture Group THE PROCESS OVERVIEW There are some process steps through which an organisation has to go to maximise the benefits and minimise the risks in an investment or market entry into an emerging market, and while these basic steps are self-evident and entirely sensible, far too [...]