Is Temasek being overly optimistic with Ant Financial?

(Apr 11): Temasek Holdings has pretty high hopes for Ant Financial.

It wants to lead a round of funding that could value the Alibaba Group Holding-backed company at US$150 billion ($197 billion). The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News reported on the deal Tuesday.

I assume Singapore's state investment firm expects significant upside on that. After leaving room for a profit at IPO and a public-trading bump, Temasek probably thinks Ant is worth at least US$200 billion at listing, which means around US$250 billion on public markets. That's a lot to ask.

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