By Andrew Pitts | 25 September 2017 Follow the money: it’s a phrase that applies not only to investigative pursuits but also to investing. So is the ‘smart money’ suggesting that private investors should be tilting their portfolios towards emerging markets? Last month I suggested that on relative valuation grounds,… Read More
Read the article on AVCJ here. (log in required) By Steve Johnson | 22 September 2017 Steven Okun, until recently KKR’s director of public affairs for Asia Pacific, has been appointed ASEAN representative for EMPEA, a global industry association for private capital in emerging markets. Okun will be responsible… Read More
By Steve Johnson | 31 August 2017 Read the full article at FT here. Private equity-style funds poured more money into emerging markets in the first half of 2017 than during any other six-month period since comparable records began in 2008. A total of $22bn was invested by private… Read More
By Isobel Markham | 24 August 2017 The acquisition of Polish online marketplace Allegro in a club deal between European giants Cinven and Permira and CEE specialist Mid Europa Partners boosted CEE and CIS investment to its highest first half since 2008. The firms invested just over $2 billion in… Read More
By Graeme Kerr | 22 August 2017 1. UNCERTAINTY IS TAKING ITS TOLLThe “Africa Rising” narrative appears to have paused for breath as macro shocks and political uncertainty in the continent’s major economies take their toll. Fundraising fell to $1.95 billion in 2016, down sharply from the $4.26 billion… Read More
By Isobel Markham | 23 August 2017 Emerging market fund managers invested just over $8 billion in private equity deals in China in the first half of this year, more than 40 percent of the total invested across all emerging markets. Emerging market private equity managers invested $18.9 billion in… Read More
Jake Cusack, chair of EMPEA’s Frontier Markets Council and a managing partner at CrossBoundary, moderates a discussion with fellow EMPEA members on opportunities and risks in frontier market private equity between Hurley Doddy at Emerging Capital Partners (ECP), Leith M. Masri at Foursan Group, and Thomas C. Barry at Zephyr… Read More
By Arleen Jacobius – 23 August 2017 Private equity, infrastructure and private credit firms invested $22 billion in emerging markets in the six months ended June 30, up 26% from investments made in the first half of 2016 and the highest half-year total since 2008, when $18 billion was invested,… Read More
By Adam Le – 5 June 2017 There is more than a year’s worth of potential secondaries deal volume being held by emerging market managers who have failed to raise a successor fund and whose LPs may be seeking liquidity, according to industry association EMPEA. At least $47.5 billion was… Read More
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
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