Emerging Markets Private Capital Fundraising and Investment Decline in 2015; Bright Spots in Infrastructure and Real Assets, Credit and Venture Capital

EMPEA’s just-released emerging markets (“EM”) private capital Year-End 2015 Industry Statistics reveal that private capital fund managers—inclusive of private equity, private infrastructure and real assets and private credit—raised US$44 billion for emerging markets in 2015, a 17% decline from 2014. Private capital investment also decreased, as fund managers deployed US$29 billion in EM companies, down from 2014’s annual total of US$38 billion. Outside of emerging markets, fundraising increased in Western Europe, year-on-year, and declined in Developed Asia and the United States, while capital invested ticked upward across these three developed market regions.1 Overall, the EM share of global fundraising declined from 14% in 2014 to 12% in 2015, while the EM share of global investment declined from 9% to 7% over the same period. 

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