July 2016 |

PRIVATE EQUITY AFRICA: GROWING AFRICA’S VENTURES THROUGH SUSTAINABLE INVESTING

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with Anne Keppler, Vice President, Corporates & Funds Africa Equity & Mezzanine, DEG Regional Office Southern Africa. Anne Keppler’s team is responsible for structuring and managing DEG’s direct equity and fund investment portfolio as well as structuring mezzanine solutions for its private sector clients on the continent. She talks to Capital Markets in Africa about some DEG’s investment and activities on the continent. To start off, could you introduce the DEG to our…

Why Pioneering Private Investors are Increasingly Critical to Africa’s Development

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LAGOS, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa: Africa has long been a place for pioneers. With more than ten percent of the world’s population, and less than two percent of the world’s GDP, Africa needs far more investment that it receives. The challenge of identifying strong investments in a massive continent that is a complex array of 54 jurisdictions and even more languages, cultures, and political systems, has kept many private equity investors away. The Overseas…

Recent Private Equity Deal Activity in Africa

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LAGOS, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa: There have been a number of recent investments in 2015 into private healthcare and pharmaceuticals in Nigeria and into agriculture in Nigeria, Ethiopia and Kenya, and into life insurance and financial services business across West Africa, particularly Ghana. Telecommunications businesses across Africa also remain attractive. Regrettably a number of deals have collapsed or been put on hold (often indefinitely) due to the commodity slump (in particular the low oil…

Harnessing Maghreb’s Growth Potentials: A Private Equity Perspective

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LAGOS, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa: Very often investors wonder whether investing in the Maghreb is beneficial and delivers high returns. There are several reasons why this region is more attractive than other emerging markets in the world. In the Maghreb countries, future growth expectations tend to be high, competition levels are rather low and markets relatively stable. Also, there is usually a strong pipeline of good companies in fundamentally good sectors. Another important element…

Embracing Local Capital Markets: An Alternative Approach to Hedging Currency Risk in Africa

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LAGOS, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa: With the appearance of stalwarts of the global private equity industry in Africa such as Carlyle, the Abraaj Group and Temasek, the outlook for private equity flows into the continent should be promising. The reality for these fund managers, is that the majority of growth being created is in local currency and as such their returns are impacted by volatility in exchange rates between local currency and the US…

EGYPT: The Gateway for International Private Equity Investment into Africa

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LAGOS, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa: Located at the North Eastern gate of Africa, Egypt is considered the gateway to African markets in terms of both investments flows, and target exports destinations. Together with the 90 million plus citizens, its professionally sophisticated financial sector adds to its comparative advantage as an appealing destination for investment flows, mandated towards both the local market and the neighbouring African countries, known for their huge investment potential. In spite…

Private Equity Activity, Growth and Performance in Morocco

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LAGOS, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa: Morocco has begun to emerge as a real operational platform for African investment seeking to position for the new economic dynamic in Africa. Building on a cornerstone location between West Africa, North America and Europe, and leveraging its own solid decade of successful market reforms and extensive, international-standard infrastructure expansion, Morocco is a bridging platform between the north and the south. Longstanding Africa commercial, cultural, and political ties and…

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