Funds

Nairobi City scenery, home of some of Africa's private equity fund exits
Private equity

Funds Friday: How do African private equity funds exit?

For private equity and venture capital investors into African businesses, getting out of the investment with a good return is one of the key challenges. ...

news of african financial markets, capital markets development
Egypt

How good are Africa’s financial markets?

Africa’s financial markets continue to progress and have demonstrated growing financial resilience in 2023, despite a challenging environment. Below we interview Jeff Gable, Absa Group’s ...

Private debt fund raises $156m to invest into African businesses and SMEs.
Capital raising

BluePeak private debt fund raises $156m

A fund offering private debt finance to growing African businesses has announced a final close at $156 million.  BluePeak Private Capital Fund SCSp is an ...

Funds

Sanlam and Absa to merge as ZAR 1trn fund manager

Absa Bank and Sanlam, both headquartered in South Africa, have announced plans to merge their investment management businesses. The merger could finalize in the first ...

Exchange news

Fund managers seek good governance

Governance, good regulation and availability of market data and prices help African fund managers decide on investing into other African markets, according to a survey ...

Exchange news

Executive pleads guilty as collapse of $14bn Abraaj hits PE flows into Africa

The ongoing collapse of the giant Abraaj platform in the world’s biggest private-equity insolvency has hit flows into Africa-focused private-equity funds. Former Abraaj managing partner ...

Exchange news

Warning about “less orthodox” private equity debts

Private equity fund managers (general partners or GPs) are using money promised by investors (limited partners or LPs) as security to borrow from banks. The ...

Capital raising

Guest post: Institutions funding infrastructure

By Gerald Gondo, Business Development Executive, RisCura Never before has the need for infrastructure felt so immediate and acute. This became apparent to me as ...

Exchange news

International – new IPSX exchange opens property as global asset class

A new asset class has opened for investors as the International Property Securities Exchange in London prepares for its first initial public offer (IPO) in ...

Exchange news

Blockchain, crypto and the changes to stock exchanges in coming 2 years

Hirander Misra, CEO of GMEX Group, says blockchain will start changing securities exchanges in the next 2 years as regulation, custodians, etc all improve. The ...

Capital raising

12 questions Silicon Valley investors ask – focus for African policymakers

African tech superstar Alysia Silberg (General Partner, Street Global Venture Capital) says African policymakers keen to boost investment into Africa's fast growing tech sector can ...

Capital raising

Do Africa’s $372bn pension fund assets facilitate inclusive growth and social stability?

Africa’s $372bn pension fund assets - do they facilitate inclusive growth and social stability? Is the money well invested, including capital markets and equities, private ...

Capital raising

How big are African pension funds?

Traditional assets under management in 12 African countries were $634bn in 2014, set to reach $1.1trn in 2020 (PwC). South Africa's $124bn GEPF is the ...

Capital raising

African pensions and infrastructure investment – recent research

African pension fund regulators and PPP practitioners have much to learn from Latin American examples on how to let local funds invest into infrastructure, while ...

Funds

Private Equity Africa award winners 2017

Congratulations to all the winners and participants of the Private Equity Africa Awards 2017.

Exchange news

JSE listed ETF offers 15 African exchanges ex-South Africa

A new AMI Big50 Ex-SA ETF offers investors access to an index covering 50 African companies outside South Africa. It is run by Cloud Atlas ...

Funds

Private Equity Africa – 2016 in review

There were about 100 private equity deals in Africa in 2016, according to Preqin, valued at $3bn, according to figures at the industry-leading Private Equity ...

Funds

Tonight – Private Equity Africa 7th Annual Review and launch of report

Tonight's meeting: Private Equity Africa 7th Annual Review & Outlook Seminar at Thomson Reuters HQ "Generating alpha in uncertainty” features top speakers identifying 2017 trends, ...

Funds

Private equity – good for investing, slow for fund-raising

Fund-raising for African private equity funds was slower in the first three quarters of 2016 compared to 2015, but deal-making was stronger, according to ...

Capital raising

Pension funds power Africa’s infrastructure

Here is my article on a critical area for Africa to develop, creating the atmosphere for productive investments by fast-growing pension funds. Published in African ...