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- Actis raises biggest ever Africa fund - Exclusive
A new fundraising bar has been set for private real estate strategies in Africa after the London-based private equity firm corralled more than $500 million from investors for its third fund.
- PEI Awards 2015 EMEA: winning big
Among the winners in this region were CVC Capital Partners, which took two key awards, EQT, PGGM, Apax and Abraaj.
- Actis, RMB Westport exit Nigeria’s largest shopping mall
The Ikeja City Mall has been sold to an Africa-focused shopping center REIT and a Johannesburg-listed real estate capital growth fund.
- It’s time for GPs to get creative in Africa
Limited partners interested in African exposure are increasing, but fund managers will need to get proactive or multiples will continue to rise as the number of investable assets falls.
- COMMENT: Africa’s faster current
RMB Westport’s launching of a private real estate fund that would be sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest is testament to the idea institutions are today looking beyond the region’s macroeconomics.
- COMMENT: What we saw, what we see
In our final Friday Letter of the year, we select 10 things that happened in the private real estate investment universe during the last 12 months that we believe were indicative of things to come in the next 12.
- PERE AWARDS: Go with who they know
The results of the 2013 Global PERE Awards are in, and larger, better-known players once again dominated
- STANLIB launches $150m Africa retail fund
The wholly-owned unit of Johannesburg-based wealth management firm Liberty Group is committing the first $50 million to the fund and expects pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and development finance institutions to commit the rest.
- Burgeoning Brazil
Capital is flooding into Latin America with Brazil firmly at the centre of the action