A Fourth Industrial Revolution is underway and this time, Africa is a part of it. African tech startups are part of a digital revolution that has the power to transform employment, industries, economies and relationships. The First and Second Industrial Revolutions swept the Western world. It was not until the Third Industrial… Read More
BY HAZEL BRADFORD · MAY 17, 2017 4:00 PM · UPDATED 4:04 PM Despite year-over-year declines in emerging markets private equity fundraising and investment, most respondents to EMPEA’s 2017 annual global limited partners survey released Tuesday do not expect the dollar level of new commitments to drop over the… Read More
By Jérôme Tagger | 17 May 2017 After much ruffling of feathers from co-founder Bono in past weeks, TPG Rise Fund CEO Bill McGlashan struck a more conciliatory tone in keynote remarks at the IFC’s 19th Annual Global Private Equity Conference in association with EMPEA. Read More
Nur Azlin Abdul Karim and Pathma Subramaniam | April 19, 2017 15:00 pm MYT As returns flatten in the mainstream markets, investors are looking for other investment destinations. Opportunities abound in frontier markets, say industry experts, but they also warn of risks from investing in these fast-growing economies. Frontier markets… Read More
N2.7 trillion (US$6.9 billion) of the aggregate committed capital by Sub-Saharan Africa private equity (PE) investors from 2011 to 2016 were uninvested by the fund managers, indicating that the industry may have witnessed a drought of investment opportunities within the period. Data from the emerging market private equity association (EMPEA),… Read More
By Luis Garcia | March 15 2017, 7:30 a.m. ET The private credit fundraising boom has made its way to Latin America. Small and midmarket companies in the region for years have had limited access to financing, particularly bank loans, even in economies that are growing. But private credit investors… Read More
Private Equity Africa’s first edition of the Annual Review Report includes in-depth views of how private equity in Africa links to global and emerging market trends. The publication also analyzes 2016 and historic deal-making, covering regions, sectors and key transactions. … Read More
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