Finch Africa wins “fund of the year” for Africa ex-South Africa
Pan-African fund manager Finch International Advisors received top honours as its Africa Opportunities Fund was named Africa ex-South Africa Fund of the Year
Pan-African fund manager Finch International Advisors received top honours as its Africa Opportunities Fund was named Africa ex-South Africa Fund of the Year
Fund-raising for sub-Saharan African private equity funds was $1.056 billion in January to June 2011, down 5% from $1.11 bn in the first half of ...
Tiny, small and medium businesses in Egypt and Tunisia, later Algeria and Morocco, are set to benefit from a new €30 million ($43.2 mn) SANAD ...
South Africa's E. Oppenheimer family and Singapore’s sovereign fund Temasek Holdings have set up a $300 million private equity fund called Tana Africa Capital to ...
The International Finance Corporation and 6 leading international finance institutions provided $164 million in financing to Rift Valley Railways International to rehabilitate the Kenya-Uganda railway ...
Private equity fund management Aureos Capital has become a founding partner of an emerging markets trade initiative called “Trade Out of Poverty”.
Kenyan private equity firm TransCentury is to list through introduction at the Nairobi Stock Exchange on 14 July at a price of KES50 (USD0.58) a ...
The dynamic Stock Exchange of Mauritius is pushing ahead with building itself as a secure base for international funding transactions and an African alternative to ...
Pan-African private equity firm Helios Investment Partners announced that it had raised $900 million for its second Africa-focused private equity fund, and the fund was ...
Leading African private equity firm Citadel Capital said that Egypt's public prosecutor has lifted a travel ban imposed in April on its chairman Ahmed Heikal, ...
Interesting article in today's FT Tilt on whether China's model of cheap loans backing Chinese construction squeezes out private equity. The author suggests there could ...
Giant UK development finance institution the CDC Group has announced a new business plan. Changes include direct investing rather than via funds, and focusing only ...
South African private equity firm Paladin Capital has listed its 76% subsidiary Curro Holdings on the JSE’s AltX on 2 June. Curro, which offers private ...
Private equity funds focusing on Africa are becoming more active and making more deals. At least 12 deals were closed in the first five months ...
Top African private equity seminar in London coming up in the evening of 2 June. It is organized by the team at Private Equity Africa ...
The National Pension Commission of Nigeria regulates over N2 trillion ($12.8 billion) in assets under management. This has been accumulated from 4.7 million people who ...
Leading Africa private equity firm Kingdom Zephyr Africa Management Company announced the opening of its new office in Lagos, Nigeria. It has $615 million under ...
Funds inflows into private equity in sub-Saharan Africa including South Africa (SSA) were $156 million in the first quarter of 2011, according to research by ...
Pan-African private equity specialist Emerging Capital Partners today announced that Andrew Brown is appointed Chief Investment Officer (CIO) in a new position. He will join ...
Africa is soaring in its attractiveness to global private equity investors. Over the next 2 years, nearly 30% of global LPs plan to expand PE ...