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London Asia Capital - Power fees will impact next year

May 2005

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 2004 was a bit of a watershed year for London Asia Capital, the early stage merchant bank operating in China. Turnover for the year was £751,000 compared to £47,000 in the previous seven month period and pretax profit was £0.33m. The bulk of turnover was dividend income from its 48% stake in China Finance, a software supplier of securities analysis tools and training courses. Year end cash was £2.9m having raised £6.5m during the year and since then, London Asia has invested a further £2m into four transactions. However, £1.7m of this was part of a share swap arrangement with Asia Power, a power plant business in China, where London Asia now holds 10%. Chief executive Simon Littlewoo ...

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