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
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
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
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
Raising money as an emerging manager or in an emerging market each presents its own set of challenges, doubly so if both of those labels apply to a single firm. Limited partners flooded capital into emerging markets private equity in the years after the global financial crisis, seeking further… Read More
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