Private equity in China heads for exits amid three-year stock slump

Intensifying geopolitical tensions have dragged on markets

20240205 Shanghai stock exchange

China ended 2023 with the world's worst-performing equity market, with the blue-chip CSI 300 Index falling for a third year and plunging 35% over 36 months. © Reuters

QU YUNXU and DENISE JIA, Caixin

Private Equity and venture capital investors, once enthralled with China, are now struggling to find new investment strategies -- or just exits -- as Chinese stocks extend a three-year slump.

In the first three quarters of 2023, indicators for fundraising, investment and exits by PE and VC firms in the Chinese market all declined, according to equity investment research institution Zero2IPO Group. The number of new funds dropped by 2.1% from a year earlier to 5,344 and the scale of these funds fell 20.2% to 1,352 billion yuan ($187 billion).

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