Second helpings?
In these troubled times, liquidity is at a premium. Can secondaries investors save the private equity industry? Grant Murgatroyd reports
Southern Africa
Leaving aside South Africa, Southern Africa is a relatively untapped private equity opportunity. But with some rich seams still to be mined, the question remains, who will take up the challenge?
Lisa Bushrod reports
Stimulating private equity
Despite a slump in exports, China’s GDP is expected to grow 6.5% in 2009. But, if the infamous regulatory regime were not enough, foreign investors now have to compete with a flood of local money. Wietske Blees asks if the Chinese private equity proposition stacks up.
Ready to rebound?
Ukraine has been hit hard by the global downturn and needed a rescue package from the IMF, but those private equity houses committed to the market say they aim to take advantage of a future upturn by acquiring well-priced attractive assets in 2009. Patrick McCurry reports.
Destination Peru
Latin America is sliding towards recession, but Peru is still growing. The country is moving up the list of private equity destinations in the region, with both international and local firms stepping up activity. Darius Sokolov reports.
MENA’s sleeping giant
Saudi Arabia, the Gulf’s biggest economy, is attracting the interest of private equity investors. But will the region’s powerful family conglomerates turn out to be friend or foe? Marc Mullen reports.
March / April movers include:
Specialist emerging markets private equity fund Aureos Capital has opened an office in Casablanca, its first in North Africa.
“Investors see the potential of what is the world’s second most populous continent, with GDPs growing at an average rate of between 5.3% and 5.5%,” said Sev Vettivetpilla, chief executive of London-based Aureos Advisers.
March / April data include:
PE & VC venture financings across emerging markets private equity + 2008 Summary Statistics + March and April 2009 emerging market venture & buyout investment activity and emerging market trade sale activity - sourced from CapitalIQ + and more.