5 February 2014, Washington, DC – Private equity investment activity held steady for emerging markets in 2013, and despite a sluggish start to the year, deal volume gained momentum in the last six months, according to the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA). This investment activity led to an overall… Read More
18 December 2013, Washington, DC: The Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA) announced today that it has welcomed five new members to its Africa Council, an advisory group comprised of senior representatives from among its leading members in the African private equity community. Representing a diverse range of African private… Read More
The Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA) has published the results of its Private Equity Talent Management in Emerging Markets Survey. The report provides an overview of the current recruitment dynamics within private equity firms across different emerging markets, the challenges that general partners (GPs) face in staffing… Read More
13 November 2013, Washington, DC: The Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (“EMPEA”) announces that Ziad Oueslati, Founding Partner of AfricInvest Group, and Maninder Saluja, Partner and Co-Head of Emerging Markets at Quilvest, have been elected to the organization’s governing body, the Board of Directors. Ziad Oueslati co-founded AfricInvest Group in… Read More
Singapore-based private equity real estate investment firm SC Capital Partners has committed approximately US$25 million to a real estate project in Myanmar. Structured through Real Estate Capital Asia Partners III, SC Capital Partners has signed a 50-year lease on a parcel of land in Yangon to develop a three… Read More
Washington, DC: The Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA) today announces the launch of its newly formed Impact Investing Council, an advisory group that will work with EMPEA to advance impact investing. The Council aims to provide a professional forum for investment managers implementing private equity strategies with impact targets… Read More
In the competitive profession of private equity, what keeps managing partners up at night? For many prominent emerging market fund managers, some of whom seemingly face few binding resource constraints, the answer is often something unexpected: an empty desk. According to the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association’s inaugural Private Equity… Read More
Small private equity funds, raising less than US$250 million, represented nearly 70% of funds that closed in the first half of 2013, compared to an average of 53% over the past two years. Reflecting the cyclical shift to deployment of capital previously raised, emerging markets private equity (“EM PE”) fundraising… Read More
18 June 2013, Washington, DC – The Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (“EMPEA”) announces that Yichen Zhang, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CITIC Capital Holdings Limited (“CITIC Capital”), has been elected to the organization’s governing body, the Board of Directors. Yichen Zhang founded CITIC Capital in 2002. Prior to CITIC… Read More
The majority of LPs (nearly 60%) expect the dollar value of their EM PE commitments to increase over the next two years. LPs continue to believe that private equity in emerging markets will outperform developed markets, with 61% of institutional investors anticipating net returns of 16% or more from their… Read More
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