LeapFrog Investments, a global impact investing fund manager specializing in financial services and health care, has invested in ARM Pension Managers, the pension fund administration subsidiary of Nigeria-based Asset & Resource Management Company (ARM Group). ARM Pensions has 57 offices across Nigeria and intends to use the new funds to… Read More
Does Law Matter? Although that may be an odd question for a practicing lawyer to pose, it is a central question for legal academics and policy-makers – in all countries, and across all fields of activity. How does any particular law affect the way people behave? Is it a force for good, or does… Read More
The Cayman Islands has long had a robust anti-money laundering and combatting of terrorist financing regime (the AML Regime) aimed at ensuring that Cayman Islands financial service providers adopt appropriate procedures to safeguard against the commission of money laundering and/or terrorist financing offences. This article explores a number of significant changes to the regulatory framework… Read More
Download Private Equity’s Role in Delivering the SDGs: Current Approaches and Good Practice Executive Summary The U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs or Global Goals) provide a global framework for addressing the most urgent global social and environmental challenges. They set out a pathway to inclusive growth and represent a… Read More
This EMPEA Brief investigates recent developments in African private equity—including the increase in capital raised for the continent during the ‘Africa Rising’ years and subsequent macroeconomic downturn—in order to identify key themes that will play a role in how fund managers navigate rising competition, slower growth and volatility to not… Read More
Africa-focused investment manager Ashburton Investments has reached a first close for its inaugural mezzanine fund with ZAR507.5 million (approximately US$40 million) in capital commitments from four undisclosed investors. Ashburton Mezzanine Fund I, which is targeting ZAR1 billion (approximately US$79 million) in total commitments, will focus on South Africa with an… Read More
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has identified and championed a pressing issue that is, at once, a major public policy imperative and a crucial concern for the international investment community: how to mobilize greater flows of private equity (PE) capital for private sector development in emerging markets… Read More
Old Mutual Private Equity (OMPE), a division of South Africa-focused asset manager Old Mutual Alternative Investments, has agreed to acquire a 50 percent stake in South Africa-based Medhold Group, an end-to-end supplier of medical devices. With OMPE’s support, Medhold plans to expand locally and in the rest of Africa, as… Read More
Pan-African food and agriculture-focused private equity fund manager EXEO Capital has invested US$4.6 million in Zambia-based food distributor Capital Fisheries through Agri-Vie Fund II. Capital Fisheries, which specializes in the cold-chain distribution of animal proteins, mainly sells tilapia (or bream) and horse mackerel. Over the next two years, the company… Read More
Key findings from the 2018 Global Limited Partners Survey include: A higher proportion of respondents* plans to increase the dollar value of their commitments to EM PE than in any edition of the survey since 2014, suggesting cautious optimism may be in order for EM-focused fund managers. Read More
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