| Date | Title | Description |
| 25.12.2020 | Racing: Kiwi duo fly flag in China | Forbes father and son hopeful feature victory at Khorchin will lead to further success
Alex Forbes celebrates riding a winner for father Graeme at Khorchin in Inner Mongolia.
Father-and-son trainer-jockey partnership Graeme and Alex Forbe... |
| 02.03.2017 | Profile Story - Hamilton Tang | - |
| 02.03.2017 | Asia value creation: Internal repairs | Private equity investorsin Asia are responding to an increasingly competitive deal- sourcing environment with a stronger focus on value-add, but successful implementation will require a cultural commitment
Rider Horse amounted to no more t... |
| 11.12.2016 | Regarding Illegal Pyramid Selling of “SMCoin” Falsely Associated with the SMC Group | It has recently come to our knowledge that our names of “Simon Murray Group(SMC Group)”, “SMC Capital” and Mr. Simon Murray have been misused to conductillegal pyramid sales of virtual currencies so called “SM Coin” (or “M Coin”). Inorder t... |
| 30.11.2016 | Flash sales help Puritan’s Pride triple web sales in China | Vitamin and supplement brand Puritan’s Pride uses a flash-sale site to drive traffic to its online store on Tmall Global.
Two of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s Chinese web marketplaces are combining to boost online sales in China for U.S.-ba... |
| 24.06.2016 | Interview: Niches Nice Fit For SMC CAPITAL CHINA | A TOP EXECUTIVE with private equity play SMC Capital China told Asia Fund Space that given the hypercompetitive consumer space in the PRC, his firm always looked for niche market opportunities to help maximize returns.
During an exclusive ... |
| 16.02.2016 | Asia drives demand for international schools | Going to an international school is seen as a way of improving the chance of a top university place
Another top boarding school in England is setting up a school in China, travelling the path taken by schools such as Harrow, Dulwich Colleg... |
| 05.01.2016 | China targets NZ racehorses | The thoroughbred industry is a bright light in New Zealand's racing scene but it's in China where this country's horses could really shine.
One of the key players in the China market is self-made billionaire Lang Lin, known to his staff as... |
| 02.06.2015 | LPs prefer China country funds | Limited partners (LP) speaking at an industry conference have expressed a preference of country or sector focused-general partners (GP), noting their clearer value proposition.
Speaking at the Hong Kong Venture Capital Association (HKVCA)C... |
| 04.11.2014 | APT Institute in collaboration with Hong Kong MTR Corporation and JC Decaux present the first ever new media exhibition in displayed in Hong Kong MTR Stations. | ON TRACK
2 Artists·2 Artworks·10 Seconds for a New Urban Experience
APT Institute in collaboration with Hong Kong MTR Corporation and JC Decaux present the first ever new media exhibition in displayed in Hong Kong MTR Stations.
Exhibitio... |
| 01.10.2014 | Entrepreneur bets on horse success | Horse-racing events are held regularly in Inner Mongolia, which boasts China's best grassland and breeds world-famous Mongolian horses. Racing rules are similar to those of Hong Kong.[Jian Jun/China Daily]
Equestrian owner counting on Chin... |
| 25.06.2014 | Racing: Kiwi duo fly flag in China | Forbes father and son hopeful feature victory at Khorchin will lead to further success
Alex Forbes celebrates riding a winner for father Graeme at Khorchin in Inner Mongolia.
Father-and-son trainer-jockey partnership Graeme and Alex Forbe... |
| 10.01.2014 | SMC Capital China among 2013 Top 30 PE Firms and Rider Horse among 2013 Top 20 Investment Potential Enterprises | SMC Capital China among 2013 Top 30 PE Firms and Rider Horse among 2013 Top 20 Investment Potential Enterprises by CCTV-Finance, National Business Daily
The Seventh China Venture Capital Value List awards ceremony was held in Beijing New C... |
| 08.01.2014 | Artist Pension Trust Launches New Sites | New year. New sites.
You’re invited to the new Artist Pension Trust website, customized to meet the needs of artists, collectors, curators and art world professionals.
Inquire about purchases from new dedicated sales team for direct acces... |
| 08.01.2014 | SMG CEO Hamilton Tang on Shanghai ICS discussing Artist Pension Trust | For full details, please click here for original video. |
| 28.12.2013 | SMC Capital China Partner Kevin Ren on Shanghai ICS TV discussing foreigner doing start-ups in China | For full details, please click here for original video. |
| 12.12.2013 | Zero2IPO names SMC Capital China among Top 50 Foreign PE Firms of the Year 2013 | SMC Capital China is pleased to be ranked among 2013 Top 50 Foreign PE Firms in China. This China Venture Capital Annual Ranking was initiated by Zero2IPO Group in 2001, and aims to provide a sound evaluation and reference system for the de... |
| 07.12.2013 | SMC Capital China Partner Kevin Ren on Shanghai CBN discussing healthcare investments (II) | For full details, please click here for original video in Chinese. |
| 02.12.2013 | Rider Horse emerges as major buyer of New Zealand thoroughbreds | A new Chinese buyer swooped in at the recent Ready to Run sale and left as one of the top buyers in Australasia¹s biggest auction of two-year-old thoroughbreds.
The company is also stacking up to be one of the top horse exporters in New Ze... |
| 23.11.2013 | SMC Capital China Partner Kevin Ren on Shanghai CBN discussing healthcare investments (I) | For full details, please click here for original video in Chinese. |
| 11.11.2013 | Moyo ranks top pet supplies retailer in Tmall Double 11 festival | During Tmall’s “Double 11”（“双11”）festival – probably China’s annual biggest eCommerce shopping festival on November 11,2013 – Moyo ranked highest among the pet supplies retailers in terms of transaction volume over competing Tmall stores Ho... |
| 08.11.2013 | SMG Launches Myanmar Fund | Myanmar is a country of great potentials: strategic access to 50% of the world population, abundant natural resources, and a large and young population. Substantial political and economic reforms are under way. SMC and SPA, Myanmar’s most r... |
| 23.10.2013 | Rider Horse Chairman Lang Lin on CCTV-2 sharing his entrepreneurship journey | For full details, please click here for original video in Chinese. |
| 12.09.2013 | Senyint won 2013 China Hospital IT Excellent Project Award | On September 12, 2013, at the 2013 China Industry Information Digitization award ceremony in Beijing, Senyint’s Qinghai province “province-county-township teleconsultation platform” project won the 2013 China Hospital IT Excellent Project A... |
| 30.08.2013 | SMG Chairman Simon Murray expressed high confidence in China during Asia trip | “Huge amount of debt is pressing world’s leading countries. Only China who is maintaining high annual growth rate about 7% is assured of this”
The ‘Right-hand man of Li KaShing’ Chairman Mr. Simon Murray (73) said the national debt problem... |
| 16.08.2013 | Rider Horse interviewed by Gentlemen magazine - Going Too Fast to Lag | Lang Lin, Chairman and CEO of Rider Horse, he started his career in the restaurant industry with the Sichuan Palace restaurant chain, but now heads the leading enterprise in China’s horse industry. Since Rider Horse cooperated with SMC3 in ... |
| 14.08.2013 | Vimiu won 2013 Top 50 Franchise China Award | 2013 China Top 50 High-Growth Franchise is the first domestic professional award for such enterprises, and aims at discovering and promoting high-growth franchises, explores future trends and a valuable networking platform. On August 2, 201... |
| 14.08.2013 | Interview with VNET CEO Meng Pu - Riding the Wave of Mobile Internet | On August 14, 2013, VNET CEO Meng Pu spoke at the 2013 China Internet Conference. He pointed out that the mobile Internet was showing a spurt of growth.
In the past 20 years, the Internet has changed many aspects of society, and the mobile... |
| 14.08.2013 | China Daily interviews with SMG CEO Hamilton Tang on the launch of Artist Pension Trust (APT) in Asia | Ya Hui Wang’s When I Look at the Moon. (Photo Provided to China Daily Asia Weekly)
Artists throughout the centuries have found that patience is a virtue. Rather than selling early and cheap, if they wait for their work to gain recognition ... |
| 30.07.2013 | Simon Murray Group launches fixed income bond business | Simon Murray Group (“SMG”) launched a new fixed income business SMC Capital Advisors in 2013. The company is the manager of SMC China Onshore Bond Fund and SMC China Offshore Bond Fund. These bond funds seek capital appreciation by investin... |
| 03.07.2013 | Gulf Keystone appoints Simon Murray as chairman | ©AFP
Oil company Gulf Keystone has named Simon Murray, theformer French Foreign legionnaire who chaired Glencore in the run-up to itsmerger with Xstrata, as its new chairman.
The appointment is an attempt by Todd Kozel,outgoing executive ... |
| 30.05.2013 | Inner Mongolia lures Hong Kong investors Northern region promotes resources and infrastructure projects in city | Over 1,000 Hong Kong firms are operating in Inner Mongolia. |
| 29.05.2013 | SMC Capital China portfolio firm Rider Horse announces close of RMB45m Series B funding | Khorchin, Inner Mongolia–May 29th, 2013- Inner Mongolia Rider Horse Industry Co., Ltd has confirmed thatit has closed its RMB45 million series B funding with lead investor CDF Capital, a leading private equity fund manager in China.
“Rider... |
| 27.05.2013 | Healthcare reform process promotes entrepreneurial stirring, hospital IT mark | Hospital IT is an industry with very strong aboriginality, foreign institutions can't adapt in it, which gives the opportunity to Chinese entrepreneurs. Congyue Tai, graduated from the medical school for more than ten years, engaged in hosp... |
| 27.05.2013 | China Business interviews SMC3 Partner Kevin Ren – China’s hospital reform brings opportunities to hospital IT start-ups | From online booking registration to the popular medical app, from improving the hospital management level in technical means to enhance doctor's diagnosis level in technical depths, the healthcare sector has been a promising venture area. T... |
| 25.04.2013 | SMC Capital China backs Series A for medical IT company Dalian Senyint | China growth capital private equity firm SMC Capital China has made a RMB30m ($5m) Series A investment in medical IT company Dalian Senyint International Digital Medical System, AVCJ has reported.
SMC Capital China is part of Hong Kong-bas... |
| 25.04.2013 | SMC Capital closes $5m Series A round in Dalian Senyint | SMC Capital China, the early growth capital platform of veteran investor Simon Murray, has closed RMB30 million ($5 million) Series A investment in Dalian Senyint International Digital Medical System, a hospital IT solutions provider.
The ... |
| 06.01.2013 | Private navy goes to war on Somali pirates | Simon Murray, chairman of the firm behind the private navy (Dustin Shum)
BRITAIN’S first private navy in almost two centuries is being created by a group of businessmen to take on the Somali pirates who are terrorising a 2.5m square mile e... |
| 28.08.2012 | SMC Capital, Khorchin Rider sign JV agreement | SMC Capital China, a subsidiary of Hong Kong-based Simon Murray Group, signed an agreement with Khorchin Rider Horse Co Ltd on Monday, the largest private enterprise in China’s horse breeding industry to form a joint venture, with the aim t... |
| 12.06.2012 | Moyo ("魔友"), China’s largest pet supplies retailer, closes Series B with strategic investor Sumitomo and PE firms Capvent Asia and SMC Capital China | SMC Capital China (“SMC3”) announced today that portfolio company Momoyoyo (www.momoyoyo.com, “Moyo”, Chinese name “魔友”), China’s largest pet supplies retailer, closed its Series B financing with lead investor Sumitomo Corporation Equity As... |
| 05.12.2011 | SMC invested Mokard captures big business opportunity: Consumers shop with virtual cards in smartphones | Andy Xue sees a business opportunity in helping consumers pack their membership cards for a smart and light shopping experience
As consumers weary of carrying bulky membership cards in purses or wallets, Chinese entrepreneur Andy Xue, 37, ... |
| 28.10.2011 | SMC Capital China and four other private equity funds invest in Sanhuan Holdings | SMC Capital China (SMC3) announced today that their Wuxi funds (joint ventures between SMC3 and Guolian Group), China Merchant Hidden Jade Fund, Dragonrise Capital, Delta Capital and others invested RMB210m in Jiangsu Sanhuan Holdings Inc. ... |
| 15.10.2011 | SMC-invested Ushi, ‘Chinese LinkedIn’, Partners with U.S. Company | Ushi.cn sign-in page
US-based marketplace for business expertise Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) has jumped into China’s nascent professional networking space by taking a minority stake in Ushi, one of a handful of social media sites that aims ... |
| 30.05.2011 | SMC’s portfolio company Ushi plots local recipe for growth | An employee is seen at Ushi Office in Shanghai
In a country where being connected is seen as crucial, Ushi, China's answer to LinkedIn, expects explosive growth over the next few years in the world's largest Internet market.
The professio... |
| 18.05.2011 | SMG expands in mainland China, focusing on tier 2/3 cities | SMG expands in mainland China, focusing on tier 2/3 cities
As private equity investment continues to gain attention in mainland China, more foreign PE/VC firms are turning their focus on the Chinese market. Recently, Simon Murray Group’s (... |
| 18.05.2011 | SMC partner San Eng interviewed on the PE industry in China by Chosun Daily, Korea’s most influential media | China is transforming from being, the world factory to the world’s financial center
China’s equity investment scene is undergoing dramatic transformation. RMB-denominated funds are getting more attention than their USD peers. More and more... |
| 18.05.2011 | Simon Murray focuses on China, expects many excellent companies to be discovered | Simon Murray is an international financier and business leader with more than four decades of experience in Asia. He serves or previously served on the boards of, and a held advisory position of many MNCs. Mr. Murray was previously managing... |
| 18.05.2011 | Foreign funds explore opportunities in tier 2/3 cities, SMC3 sees great potential in them | Local RMB funds such as Shenzhen Capital Group (“SCG”) and Jiuding operating nationwide coverage strategies with hundreds of investment professionals, and portfolio exits in the past few years have shown this strategy has paid off. This has... |
| 16.05.2011 | SMC3’ announces “Vision 8|8” plan to manage RMB8+bn in AUM in 8+ cities by 2015 | SMC Capital China (“SMC3”), a leading China-focused growth capital private equity firm today announces its “Vision 8|8” nationwide expansion plan and six new investments exceeding RMB350 million in total commitments.
SMC3 is part of Hong K... |
| 13.05.2011 | SMC Capital listed among high profile yuan-denominated private-equity funds | Goldman's 1st yuan PF fund in Beijing.
Goldman Sachs set up its first yuan-denominated private-equity fund in Beijing yesterday, signaling the United States investment bank's long-term commitment to China, according to a source familiar wi... |
| 13.05.2011 | SMG invests in Dalian Huayuankou | Yesterday, SMC Capital Dalian Huayuankou office held its opening ceremony at 2 Zhong Shan Square. Dalian Huayuankou SMC Ventures Enterprise is the first foreign investment enterprise in Liaoning province
SMC Capital China (“SMC3”), one of ... |
| 10.05.2011 | SMC Capital Dalian office official opening ceremony | On May 10th, 2011， SMC Capital China (“SMC3”) officially opened its Dalian office. SMC3’s Dalian Huayuankou SMC fund is the first Joint Venture RMB-denominated private equity fund in Liaoning province, with a total fund size of RMB 600m. Da... |
| 04.05.2011 | Chairman of Glencore, the world’s largest diversified commodities trader | SMC Capital China (“SMC3”), one of China’s leading growth capital private equity firms, and part of Simon Murray Group (“SMG”), announced today that its executive Chairman, Mr. Simon Murray, has been appointed non-executive Chairman of the ... |
| 14.04.2011 | Glencore names Simon Murray as chairman ahead of IPO | Simon Murray has been named chairman of Glencore.
Top commodities trader Glencore has named Simon Murray, South Pole adventurer and former Vodafone board member, as its non-executive chairman.
Glencore, the world’s largest diversified com... |
| 31.03.2011 | SMC Capital Partner Wai Sum interviewed on the development of private equity industry in Dalian | In Dalian’s 12th five year plan, Dalian equity investment industry is expected to reach the scale of hundreds of billions of RMB within in next five years. This then begs questions such as: What advantages does Dalian offer to equity invest... |
| 12.03.2011 | SMC Capital Partner Alex Xing interviewed by PV Magazine on China’s renewable energy policy | Win-win in Wuhan
Chinese industry incentives: Evergreen Solar is moving its PV manufacturing plant from Devens, USA, to Wuhan, China. It’s sad for Massachusetts, but the move is understandable: China is offering generous support for high-t... |
| 21.10.2010 | SMG strengthens cooperation with Dalian | On Oct. 19th, Dalian city Deputy Mayor Xiao Shengfeng met with Mr. Simon Murray, President of Simon Murray Group (“SMG”); Director of Dalian Huayuankou Economic Zone Management Committee, Dong Chengfa, also attended the meeting.
Xiao Sheng... |
| 29.12.2009 | Simon Murray Group among RMB 1.4 billion venture funds entering Wuxi ventures | The group of investors in Wuxi has been strengthened.
Five investment funds focusing on startups were successfully established in Wuxi. With proprietary advantages in financial comprehensive platform and resources, Wuxi Guolian Development... |
| 18.11.2009 | CBN interviews Mr. Simon Murray | Simon Murray Group's first RMB 100 million onshore fund targets Wuxi 530 Plan companies
In 1997, Simon Murray established Simon Murray Group (“SMG”) under his own name, its subsidiaries include USD-denominated GEMS fund and Simon Murray &a... |