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December
Northern Trust is to offer environmental emission analytics, enabling institutional investors and high net worth individuals across the globe to effectively measure the carbon footprint of their investments.
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TLG Capital, a frontier market fund, becomes the largest shareholder in the Swedish Ghana Medical Centre, a private health care provider located in Ghana
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November
African-focused private equity firm, Helios Investment Partners, has raised $400 million for its second fund
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Africa is set to become a leading investment target for telecoms investors, as underlined by the latest data from the Altimo Index
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Insparo Asset Management has appointed Jamie Allsopp to help promote the Insparo Africa & Middle East Fund
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Invesco Perpetual is de-registering its fund range in South Africa. The move is due to regulations, which will prevent Invesco from hiring different units of the same banking group as trustees and administrators.
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J.P. Morgan has been appointed by emerging markets manager Greylock Capital Management to provide private equity fund administration.
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Scipion Capital, the African hedge fund manager, has launched a mining fund which allows investors to capitalise on the recovery of the junior mining and natural resources sector in Africa.
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Johannesburg-based private equity firm, EVI Capital Partners, has rolled out two alternative investment funds, for a total of $800 million
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The South African Government Employees Pension Fund is building on its position as the largest pension fund in Africa and setting an example on ESG for the rest of the African continent.
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October
As Nigeria approaches the 50th anniversary of its independence in October 2010, it rarely appears in the news headlines for anything other than for corruption, or violence. But these impressions only tell a small part of the story.
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September
Old Mutual Investment Group has launched a $614 million housing fund
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TIAA-CREF has divested its stake in investment firm, Africa-Israel, following allegations that the firm violates human rights and international law
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The credit crunch largely passed Africa by, and the continent is on the cusp of an investment revival, writes Caroline Allen
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August
GroFin has raised $170 million for its GroFin Africa Fund.
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July
Hans Stander at Henshaw Capital Partners, talks of "farmers" and "hunters" in African investment, and how that categorisation applies to the first Pan-African private equity fund of funds.
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Thames River Capital has launched a multi-manager fund and hopes to achieve a target net return of 15+% per annum.
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June
A new asset management firm has been built around the trade and investment connections of the old Silk Route between Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Caroline Allen reports
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March