Sunday 20 May 2012

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Fund Managers to Botswana?

Sunday, 20 May 2012
The Africa Report takes a look at Botswana’s efforts to diversify its economy away from the diamond sector into services by setting up a financial services hub. Gaborone sits right next to Johannesburg, one of the...
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Private Equity at the Addis WEF

Private equity made a show at the just concluded Africa edition of the mother of all talkshops, the World Economic Forum (WEF). Held in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa under the heading ‘Shaping Africa’s Transformation’, the WEF helped bolster the perception that Africa was becoming an...

South Africa & China: Deal-making Differences

Actis director Natalie Kolbe reflects on the differences between the deal-making environments in South Africa and China in this piece. We thought you might like to read it in full: The label ‘emerging markets’ may help us summarise prevailing global economic trends, but it can also...

ESG Climbs the Global PE Agenda

Top global private equity firms are increasing their focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, driven largely by investor interest in the area, according to a new study by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).  Of those surveyed, 94% also believe ESG activities can...

EMPEA 2011 Data Shows Investment Rise, Fundraising Dip for Africa

Private equity funds targeting sub-Saharan Africa raised USD1.3bn and invested just over USD1bn in 2011, according to full year 2011 data results released by the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA). The fundraising total shows a dip from the USD1.5bn mobilised in 2010...

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Nigeria Pushes for Deeper Public Markets

Thursday, 22 March 2012
Nigerian policymakers are busy looking for ways to deepen the country’s capital markets, This Day reports. The chairman of the house committee on capital markets, Herman Hembe, is reviewing his earlier proposal that upstream oil majors and telcos be required to list locally in an effort to...
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New PenCom Regulations to Boost PE Investments in Nigeria?

Tuesday, 24 April 2012
In a piece for Nigeria’s ThisDay, former AVCA CEO and current Henshaw Capital Partners CEO Barbara James comments on the proposed PenCom 2012 amendments that will, she hopes, finally nudge local institutional investors to invest in private equity. In December 2010, PenCom changed the rules on...
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