Africa
24 January 2012
Excited by the continent’s emerging middle class, institutional investors around the world are looking to make to make their first significant step into Africa over the next five years, with private equity and infrastructure expected to overtake commodities as the most favoured asset classes.
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15 November 2011
The first three quarters of 2011 saw 119 emerging markets private equity and venture capital funds raising $32.3bn, against the $23.5bn raised in all of 2010, returning fundrasising activity in this sector to pre-crisis fundraising levels, according to new research.
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18 June 2007
SAVCA's venture capital and private equity industry performance survey of South Africa covering the 2006 calendar year.
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13 December 2006
Africa's political leaders are taking major steps to build a better foundation for investment, according to the chairperson of Circle Capital Ventures, Mamphela Ramphele, addressing the 14th annual Wharton Africa Business Forum. Ramphele, a former managing director of the World Bank, said that the continent has made historic efforts to affirm good governance, build strong institutions and fight corruption.
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3 October 2006
This paper presents the African Venture Capital Association's response to the Commission for Africa report which recommended a series of actions to provide crucial support for the Millennium Development Goals for Africa.
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8 February 2005
HBS Working Knowledge looks at the lessons private equity firms can draw from one telecom firm's journey through the bureaucracy, corruption, and environmental factors faced by African start-up ventures.
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21 July 2004
The South African private equity industry recorded total funds under management of R41.5bn at the close of 2003, a ten per cent increase on the previous year, according to KPMG and the South Africa Private Equity and Venture Capital Association.
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19 November 2003
Far-reaching economic reforms introduced throughout much of Africa in the 1990s have begun to create a more stable and attractive environment for private investment, according to the International Finance Corporation.
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14 June 2002
The key to improving levels of new business growth in South Africa is education, says this report for the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. While not desperate - South Africa has average rates of entrepreneurial activity in international terms - there are concerns about the lack of a ready supply of entrepreneurs.
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30 April 2002
Private equity is a relatively small asset class in South Africa both in relation to other traditional asset classes and compared to the size of the market elsewhere. There is an estimated R10-15bn currently invested with as many as 50 players. Marcia Klein from the Sunday Times newspaper in South Africa looks at the emerging market.
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