KKR has reached a USD1.3b final close for its KKR Global Impact Fund. The vehicle will focus on investment opportunities in companies whose core business models provide commercial solutions to an environmental or social challenge across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Read more… Read More
Brookfield Asset Management has reached a USD20b final close for its fourth infrastructure fund, exceeding its USD17b target and making it Brookfield’s largest fund to date. Approximately 75% of the third-party capital came from existing Brookfield investors. Brookfield committed USD5b to the fund. Read more»… Read More
Tiger Global Management reached a final close for Private Investment Partners XII with USD3.75b in commitments. The venture fund will invest in private technology companies focusing on consumer internet, cloud, and industry-specific software globally. Read More
J.P. Morgan announced the creation of the J.P. Morgan Development Finance Institution (DFI) to expand its development-oriented financing activities in emerging markets. Read more»… Read More
Swiss impact investment fund manager responsAbility Investments has announced the first close of its climate debt fund at USD151m. The fund, focused on expanding energy access in emerging markets with a strong focus on Sub-Saharan Africa and South and Southeast Asia, has received commitments from AHL Venture Partners, Ashden Trust,… Read More
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
Over a year has passed since the collapse of Abraaj Group (Company), which at its peak was among the world’s largest emerging markets-focused private equity firms with USD 13.6 billion under management. As of May 2019, entities and individuals had asserted losses of over USD 1 billion against the company,… 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
Download press release CHINA DECELERATION LEADS TO OVERALL SLOWDOWN IN EMERGING MARKET PRIVATE CAPITAL ACTIVITY 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,… Read More
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