By Stephen Aldred and Matthew Miller HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) – When a fast-growing private equity firm co-founded by Jack Ma sought funding from institutional investors for the first time in early 2013, almost all had one major concern, its chairman said: was the firm independent from Ma, the influential executive chairman of Alibaba Group Holding, […]

By Stephen Aldred and Matthew Miller HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) – When a fast-growing private equity firm co-founded by Jack Ma sought funding from institutional investors for the first time in early 2013, almost all had one major concern, its chairman said: was the firm independent from Ma, the influential executive chairman of Alibaba Group Holding, […]