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Strategic equity investing is an approach that takes the best of private equity and listed equity investment strategies, and makes them work for the investor.
Over the past two decades, private equity (PE) in Africa has emerged as an expanding asset class, both in funds raised and capital deployed.
Despite South Africa’s contracted economic growth forecast at the end of 2016 the performance of the South African private equity industry ended the year on a positive trajectory, demonstrating the asset class’s ability to continually source attractive deals and produce favourable returns amidst challenging local market conditions.
New research shows private equity activity in Africa will inject billions of US dollars of sustainable investment over the next five years. Private equity deals in Africa are growing from a low base equivalent to 0.18% of Africa’s GDP in 2016. Every 0.01% increase will mean $200 million more investment and could easily reach $1.1 billion over the next five years.
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