Investment Blog | China-Canada Investment Tracker

Update – Chinese Investment in Australia

May 4, 2015

According to the Australian Government's recently released Foreign Investment Review Board Annual Report 2013-14, China is now the largest source of new foreign investment in Australia, passing the USA.

China Lifts QFII Quota Limit, Signalling More Reforms on Foreign Fund Investments

April 7, 2015

According to the latest update on March 26 on the Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (QFII) quota awards released by China’s foreign exchange regulator, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), Fidelity Investments Management (Hong Kong) was granted a combined quota of US$1.2 billion to invest in the Chinese financial market, which makes it the first asset management company under the program to break the US$1 billion quota cap.

Dataset Update Provides Evidence of Diversification in Chinese Investment in Canada

January 9, 2015

To capture the latest patterns of Chinese investment transactions in Canada, the research team at the China Institute has completed a number of updates to the China-Canada Investment Tracker database, which currently covers transactions between 1993 and 2014.

Summary Report

November 13, 2014

Read about some of the key findings from our work on the China-Canada Investment Tracker, a database of investments by Chinese firms in Canadian firms and assets covering more than 250 acquisitions, equity investments, and joint ventures in Canada by Chinese-controlled entities over the last twenty years.

China Institute Announces Launch of the China-Canada Investment Tracker

November 13, 2014

EDMONTON—Today, the China Institute at the University of Alberta (CIUA) launched the China-Canada Investment Tracker, an online interactive visualization, as part of an ongoing project to study Chinese investments in Canada and around the world.

The China-Canada Investment Tracker website is located at www.ualberta.ca/chinainvestment. Users are able to view the value and number of investment deals by year, province, and sector. A breakdown of the value of deals per year by ownership status of the acquiring company (e.g. state-owned, private) is also provided.