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Sale comes after the expiry last month of a pre-emptive acquisition rights agreement between the main family holding companies
Placing and open offer follows recent acquisition of US annuity provider
Long-time owners sell 0.5% stake after strong results
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Boqii Co, a Chinese pet-focused e-commerce site, is working on a Hong Kong listing that could raise up to $150m, according to a source familiar with the matter. -
Several companies boasting Big Four accounting firms as auditors have emerged as fraudulent, leading many to wonder what value auditors bring to an investors' understanding of a company. The big issue is that auditors have little obligation to detect fraud at companies they audit, and neither it seems does anyone else. Until they do, investors need to stop believing a Big Four sign-off is a seal of approval. In fact, for a system supposedly built with its own reputation in mind, developed markets have offered investors very little protection.
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Investors have got a fever, and the only cure is more pharma. Biotech equity issuance is surging, in line with rising stock prices in the secondary market, as stock pickers pan for the company that will cure Covid-19, among other maladies. But this is more speculating than investing and many are going to catch a cold chasing around a risky sector that is starting to look a lot like the dot-com bubble.
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Richard Livingstone, the British billionaire property developer, sold Skr5.5bn ($616m) of shares in Swedish online gambling company Evolution Gaming in an overnight trade on Monday, to help mitigate the effect of Covid-19 on his property portfolio.
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ADO Properties, the German real estate developer, concluded its €450m rights issue on Monday, with a high take-up from its shareholders.
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Ant Group, the Chinese financial technology giant behind popular mobile payments app Alipay, has set in motion plans to go public through IPOs in Hong Kong and Shanghai, in what are set to be landmark deals for Asia's equity markets.
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