Fund Managers Raise $824m for Turkey in 2016

By Dilara Zengin ANKARA Private capital fund managers raised $824 million for Turkey in 2016, the highest total recorded for the country since 2012, according to Global Industry Association for Private Capital in Emerging Markets (EMPEA) on Friday. In a report, EMPEA said private capital fundraising… Read More

African Private Equity Deals Hit Seven-Year High

The value of private equity deals in Africa reached their second-highest level on record in 2014 as population growth and an increasingly stable political climate helped drive international interest in the continent. The total value of deals in Africa last year was $8.1bn, just short of the $8.3bn high recorded in 2007, according… Read More

Zuckerberg-Backed Startup Seeks to Shake Up African Education

Bridge International Academies, backed by investors including Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, has opened more than 400 schools in Kenya in a bid to bring inexpensive, private education to some of the world’s poorest children. In rural Kenya, 6-year-old Sharon Ndunge, sitting in a rough-built classroom with chicken-coop wire for windows,… Read More

PDI, in partnership with EMPEA, releases special supplement on emerging markets

In partnership with EMPEA, Private Debt Investor has released The Emerging Markets Special, an exclusive supplement to the magazine’s May issue. The supplement features an EMPEA-led roundtable of some of the world’s leading emerging market credit specialists, who came together to discuss opportunities and challenges in an increasingly global marketplace. Roundtable… Read More

5 Takeaways from EMPEA’s Annual Report

Private equity investors’ response to whipsawing global public markets is more often than not “keep calm and carry on.” That seems to be the case in emerging markets, according to the latest annual data published by the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association. Although it may be somewhat immune from… Read More



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