
Recent news came out that Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) just closed a $10 billion financing round for Ant Financial Services Group, operator of China’s biggest online payment platform by market share, Alipay. The deal valued the company at $150 billion and this is an excellent example to show how the little investor gets screwed.
According to Reuters, investors are Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC Pte Ltd, and state investor Temasek Holdings (Private), as well as U.S. private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC. So, mostly private and well-positioned firms invest before the IPO. But let’s take a look at what has been going on.
Yahoo, Alibaba & Ant Financial
If you have a pension fund, it probably owned shares of Yahoo which consequently owned part Alibaba. More →