An equity investment would require approval by the Chinese government.

Other investors said it was a blow to foreign equity investment.

In the last year, its equity investments were up 28.63 percent.

No single equity investment of more than 5 percent should be allowed.

In 1990 he retired to write books and make private equity investments.

If so, there is an alternative type of private equity investment - business angels.

But a secret $5.7 million transaction cut the real equity investment in half.

That venture produced three times their equity investment of $55 million.

Of course, there are private equity investments that make sense for companies.

"I think as an equity investment, it's a great one."