EMPEA today announced private equity and venture capital fundraising in 2014 increased year-over-year across all five major emerging market regions – Emerging Asia, Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Fund managers raised US$45 billion for… Read More
The OECD, backed by the G20, has been working on an initiative to crack down on tax avoidance by multi-national companies since July 2013 under its so-called base erosion of profits (or BEPS) project. While aimed principally at international profit allocation and repatriation by multi-nationals, its potentially broad scope means… Read More
EMPEA and the Wharton Social Impact Initiative (WSII) announced a partnership to greatly expand Wharton’s impact investing performance database. The new partnership will accelerate the field by providing quantitative evidence necessary for the continued expansion and development of impact investment. The joint venture will provide comprehensive metrics for institutional investors,… Read More
11 June 2014, Washington, D.C. – EMPEA today announces the launch of its newly formed Energy Council, an advisory body comprised of and dedicated to fund managers, institutional investors and service providers active in energy-related private equity investments in emerging markets. Scott Mackin, Managing Partner and Co-President of Denham Capital,… Read More
According to EMPEA’s latest industry statistics, private equity and venture capital firms raised US$6.5 billion across 41 emerging markets funds in the first quarter of 2014, a 20% decrease from the US$8.0 billion raised by the same number of funds in the first quarter of 2013. Investment activity, however, increased… Read More
Raising money as an emerging manager or in an emerging market each presents its own set of challenges, doubly so if both of those labels apply to a single firm. Limited partners flooded capital into emerging markets private equity in the years after the global financial crisis, seeking further… Read More
What is Emerging Markets Mezzanine Financing? Access to finance is one of the most prevalent challenges facing countless entrepreneurs and business owners across the emerging markets. Local banks have traditionally focused their lending on only a handful of large companies—in part, because they view smaller firms as having insufficient assets… Read More
In partnership with EMPEA, Private Debt Investor has released The Emerging Markets Special, an exclusive supplement to the magazine’s May issue. The supplement features an EMPEA-led roundtable of some of the world’s leading emerging market credit specialists, who came together to discuss opportunities and challenges in an increasingly global marketplace. Roundtable… Read More
EMPEA Global Limited Partners Survey finds 67% of institutional investors view the risk profile of private equity in emerging markets as unchanged 30 April 2014, Washington, D.C. – Two-thirds of limited partners (“LPs”) investing in emerging markets private equity view the risk profile of emerging markets private equity (“EM PE”)… Read More
Key findings from the 2014 Global Limited Partners Survey include: 41% of LPs* plan to increase the percentage of their total PE allocation targeted at emerging markets over the next two years, higher than the 32% reporting similar intentions in the 2013 survey. 54% of LPs* expect to increase the dollar value… Read More
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