Private capital investment in China slowed markedly in the first half of the year, data from the Emerging Market Private Equity Association released Tuesday showed. Capital invested in China’s private markets fell from $15.1 billion in the first half of 2018 to $9.8 billion through June 2019, with deal… Read More
The record level of private capital fundraising and investment in emerging markets in 2018 is so far not repeating itself in 2019, according to EMPEA’s midyear industry statistics report released Tuesday. That was partly to be expected after 2018, EMPEA officials noted, but also due to investment slowdown in China… Read More
By Dan Keeler | May 25 2018 Read the full post on The Wall Street Journal here. Liberia’s former president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has urged companies active in Africa to take the lead in stamping out corruption on the continent. At the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association / IFC annual meeting in… Read More
By David Bank | May 29 2018 Read the full article at ImpactAlpha here. In the mobilization of global capital to meet the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, private equity firms investing in emerging or “growth” markets have a special and perhaps irreplaceable role to play. The report makes a… Read More
Read the full article on All About Alpha here. View the press release here. The organization has announced its first initiative aimed at closing the gender gap, which it calls its Gender Parity Acceleration Working Group. Read More
By Hazel Bradford | May 15 2018 Read the full article at Pensions & Investments here. Private equity limited partners’ interest in emerging markets improved slightly this year, according to EMPEA’s 2018 Global Limited Partners Survey released Tuesday at a Washington conference. The highest proportion of respondents since the… Read More
By Claire Milhench | May 2 2018 Read the full article on Reuters here. LONDON (Reuters) – Sovereign investors are helping fuel billion-dollar funding rounds for emerging-market tech startups, where companies and their backers are fighting for first-mover advantage in the digital space. The aim is to find firms… Read More
Asian Venture Capital Journal | 21 March 2018 Download the full article here. (EMPEA has received special permission from AVCJ to feature the PDF of the original article on its web page. The article may also be read in its original location here.) Rising interest in active… Read More
By Luis Garcia | 14 March 2018 | Read the full article at WSJ Private Equity Pro Private-equity firms poured billions of dollars in Mexican energy ventures in recent years. With left-leaning candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador leading the polls for Mexico’s presidential election in July, should those firms… Read More
Read the full article on WSJ here. By Dan Keeler | 23 February 2018 Private equity investments into emerging and frontier markets hit a record last year but some regions experienced sharp declines—a development that suggests structural changes are under way in investors’ approaches to these markets. According to figures… Read More
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