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CIC goes on global hiring spree
(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-06-18 08:53 China Investment Corp (CIC), the country's $200 billion sovereign wealth fund, said it would start a new round of global hiring to support an expansion of its operations as it seeks new overseas investments. CIC, which currently employs about 200 people, will seek professional staff in 33 categories, including risk management, real estate, infrastructure, commodities and hedge fund investment, according to its website. "We are a new company, so it's natural for us to hire more people to grow," a CIC spokeswoman said. She declined to indicate the exact number of people CIC plans to hire.
CIC, which became wary of overseas expansion after loss-making investments in Morgan Stanley and Blackstone, has recently shown renewed interest in overseas markets as the global financial crisis eases. This week, it committed to invest $159 million in Australian property firm Goodman Group. CIC added $2.2 billion to its previous $5.6 billion investment in Morgan Stanley earlier this month and plans to open an office in London. The fund is also looking at five or six distressed asset deals in both Asia and the West, people familiar with CIC's plans have told Reuters. "We think this (new hiring) means CIC is ready to resume postponed investment activities overseas," said Michael McCormack, executive director of Shanghai-based fund consultancy Z-Ben Advisors. "It's also likely to begin to take a more proactive approach in investment areas where it has not yet made much progress, such as private equity."
CIC is also hiring for 12 other departments including relative-return investment, asset allocation research, strategy investment and risk management. Set up in 2007 to manage part of China's almost $2 trillion in foreign exchange reserves, CIC is seeking talent at a time when Wall Street banks such as Citigroup and Goldman Sachs are scaling back their businesses and firing staff. "It's good timing. Many overseas Chinese talent is returning home," said Pearl Li, senior consultant at headhunting firm Hudson Highland Group Inc. "Job opportunities at CIC are really, really attractive, given CIC's unusual status as a sovereign wealth fund." Meanwhile, the sovereign wealth fund said yesterday it has taken over the supervision of China Reinsurance (Group) Corp's management team from the insurance regulator. The information, disclosed in a statement on CIC's website, didn't say how China Reinsurance's daily operations will be supervised following the change. CIC's news department said the move gives CIC responsibility for naming senior managers at China Reinsurance. Central Huijin Investment Co, an investment arm of CIC, injected US$4 billion into China Reinsurance in April 2007, helping the country's largest reinsurer to restructure into a corporation. Reuters (For more biz stories, please visit Industries)
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