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AVCA launches inaugural report on venture capital in Africa

The African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA), the pan-African industry association which promotes and enables private investment in Africa, has released its inaugural report on VC, entitled Venture Capital in Africa: Mapping Africa’s Start-up Investment Landscape.The report analyses the exponential growth of VC in Africa over the 2014-2019

Low capital calls set to insulate LBO funds from downturn

eFront’s latest research finds that recent historically low levels of capital calls from LBO funds could protect them as markets fall into recession.According to the Private Markets in Downturns: 3 Observations report, which looks at LBO and VC performance during crises, the record performance of 2003 and 2009 vintage years

Low capital calls set to insulate LBO funds from downturn

eFront’s latest research finds that recent historically low levels of capital calls from LBO funds could protect them as markets fall into recession.According to the Private Markets in Downturns: 3 Observations report, which looks at LBO and VC performance during crises, the record performance of 2003 and 2009 vintage years

Coller Capital sees big leap in investor satisfaction with PE transparency

There has been a big leap in investor satisfaction with the transparency of GPs’ disclosures and communications, according to Coller Capital’s latest Global Private Equity Barometer. In the years following the Global Financial Crisis, only two in five LPs were satisfied with their GPs’ transparency. Four in five Limited Partners are

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Buyout fundraising declined by over 70 per cent due to Corona Crisis

The CEPRES Private Capital Market Outlook for the first quarter of 2020 using the latest data from the CEPRES Platform shows how buyout fundraising in the US declined by almost 50 per cent QoQ and 20 per cent YoY, but is still substantially above volumes during the post-GFC era of 2009 -2012.

Private capital ready to support UK SMEs with recovery from Covid-19 crisis

High Net Worth private investors are ready and willing to provide small and medium-sized British businesses (SMEs) with the financial support they will need as they recover from the impact of Covid-19, reveals research by Connection Capital, a specialist private client investment business.According to a survey among 233 Connection Capital

Increase in carve-outs despite Covid-19

A new survey by Intertrust, a global leader in providing tech-enabled fund and corporate solutions, reveals how Covid has impacted the decision making behind carve-outs.During a recent webinar, addressing how best to create value through carve-outs, a third (33 per cent) of industry professionals said they intended to start looking

Majority of global PE investors continue to pursue transactions despite Covid-19

Private equity investors are still seeking new deal opportunities despite expected declines in revenue as experienced by their portfolio companies and no wider ‘return to normal’ until 2021.That’s according to a new global study on how Covid-19 has impacted private equity firms’ and investors’ forecasts and strategies from international audit

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