London's GHO, Singapore's CBC to merge into $21 billion healthcare investor - Reuters

"The combination is about connecting leading healthcare companies and innovations with the world's largest and most established markets and global pools of capital—by bringing together complementary strengths across Asia-Pacific, North America and Europe."

— Fu Wei , Executive

"We are reinforcing our position as dedicated healthcare specialists, expanding our global reach, deepening our value creation capabilities, and empowering our portfolio companies to compete and win in an increasingly dynamic global healthcare market."

— Mike Mortimer , Executive

"This gives the healthcare sector the reason to be the most defensive sector. An ageing population would lead to more unknown diseases and the need for more new drugs. Healthcare is therefore an evergreen sector and will continuously be more defensive."

— Wei Fu , Executive

"In particular, AI is a fast-evolving force in healthcare and life sciences and so AI applications in these fields will continue to be a focus moving forward."

— Lady Mireille Gillings , Executive

"The combination is about connecting leading healthcare companies and innovations with the world's largest and most established markets and global pools of capital – by bringing together complementary strengths across Asia-Pacific, North America and Europe."

— Fu Wei , Executive

"The merger will expand the two investors' reach and help portfolio companies 'to compete and win in an increasingly dynamic global healthcare market.'"

— Mike Mortimer , Executive