Impact investing is a powerful tool to eradicate poverty, promote economic development and address climate change. Equally, impact is now winning growing acceptance as an asset class among investors. However, many investment managers charged with a fiduciary duty to pension plans or other institutions continue to assume that impact is… Read More
Impact Investing is the act of investing with the intent to measurably contribute positive social, economic, and/or environmental impacts while still achieving financial returns. The underlying concepts to Impact Investing have been part of investment ethos for over one hundred years, and socially responsible investing for even longer. Socially responsible… Read More
On June 18, 2019, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published a concept release inviting input to an initiative that could end with broad harmonization of the many rules that apply to private securities offerings in the United States. SEC Chairman Jay Clayton has called the existing framework… Read More
The latest edition of EMPEA’s Legal and Regulatory Bulletin explores a range of issues impacting private investment across the world (particularly, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, China, the EU, and the US) and the implications of those issues for practitioners. Bulletin contributions: When Does a Private Fund Manager’s “Fiduciary… Read More
EMPEA Members log in to receive exclusive access to the detailed report (PDF) and underlying data (Excel). Subdued investment in Asia’s largest market, as well as fewer large-cap pan-Asia funds raising capital, rein in total EM activity levels despite bright spots in other regions, including Africa, other countries,… Read More
The possible extension of the AIFMD marketing passport to fund managers based outside the EU has been monitored with considerable interest by market participants over the last year. Currently, the AIFMD marketing passport— which allows a manager to market funds to professional investors freely across the EU, without the… Read More
In this Bulletin we address a number of commercial, governance, legal and regulatory issues, which we believe are both timely and of broad interest to the emerging market private equity, venture capital, and infrastructure investment community. We are certain that some of the topics covered will be discussed—vociferously perhaps—at… Read More
More than half of surveyed limited partners (LPs) plan to commit more capital to emerging market private equity (EM PE) in the next two years, the first time the rate has surpassed 50% since 2014. This note of optimism highlights EMPEA’s new Global Limited Partners Survey, which… Read More
EMPEA is pleased to share with you Private Credit Solutions: A Closer Look at the Opportunity in Emerging Markets, an in-depth study of the private credit investment landscape across emerging and frontier economies. The report gathers the latest EMPEA data on overall industry activity while delving deeper into the details… Read More
The 15th annual edition of EMPEA’s Global Limited Partners Survey features the views of 104 limited partners (LPs) on the current conditions and outlook for emerging market private equity (EM PE). This study aims to shed light on how LPs’ plans for investing are evolving, what factors are affecting their… Read More
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