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
The agreement makes Palico’s online private equity fundraising marketplace available to EMPEA Members on advantageous terms as part of EMPEA’s Member Benefit Network. July 12, 2017 – Today, EMPEA, the global industry association for private capital in emerging markets, and Palico announce a partnership offering all Members of EMPEA special… 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
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
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