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Only a few more days and President-Elect Trump will be President Trump. While many may have significant reservations about the impending “Trump effect”, we believe that it will prove to be less pronounced than many investors fear.

Development Initiatives has just published a report called Blended finance: Understanding its potential for Agenda 2030.

Domestic LPs are finding good returns in emerging markets but international investors still shy away from committing, despite an increase in interest, according to Sarona Asset Management’s Vivina Berla.

Development finance institutions have been the major supporters of the fledgling emerging market private equity industry, in part because other investors, lacking solid and reliable results data, remain wary, delegates to AltAssets’ Limited Partner Summit in London this week were told.

An ESG focus in private equity could dampen profitability in the short term, but the long term performance will pay off according to Sarona’s Vivina Berla.

Today, Sarona Asset Management Inc. was recognized for creating the most positive overall social and environmental impact by the non-profit B Lab.

A local base is essential for truly understanding emerging markets businesses and adding value, according to Sarona Asset Management senior partner Vivina Berla.

Canadian Sarona Asset Management has held a final close for its second developing markets FoF on $150m, AltAssets can reveal.

Successful emerging markets dealmaking is built squarely on investing in people rather than relying on ‘number crunching’, Sarona Asset Management senior partner Vivian Berla has told AltAssets.

The World Economic Forum, the group most notable for their annual gathering of economists and business leaders in Davos Switzerland, is promoting a new Blended Finance model of economic growth