Sanlam Private Equity appoints Fernandez as CEO

Sanlam Private Equity (SPE), the private equity investment business within the Sanlam Group, today announced the appointment of Cora Fernandez as chief executive officer. Fernandez will take up her new role in SPE’s Hyde Park offices in Johannesburg on 1 July 2009.
With close to R5 billion of assets under management, Sanlam Private Equity is one [...]

The Interview – Christopher Clarke, Inspired Evolution Investment Management: “Cleantech comes of age”

Inspired Evolution Investment Management is a specialized, boutique investment management company and authorised financial services provider established by Consensus Business Group, Pan-African Capital Holdings, Alluvia Group and Capital Evolution, as its four founding partners. Inspired Evolution Investment Management has first mover advantage to lead cleantech investing in emerging markets in southern Africa. The investment team [...]

The emergence of new breed of operators in South Africa

There has certainly been no shortage of news in 2008 and the first part of 2009, both about the telecoms sector and the state of the world’s economy. And here at Delta Partners, we feel that this year it is finally going to be different for the South African telecoms industry. “There is a confluence [...]

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South African private equity firms are increasingly looking at the rest of the continent, spurred by the success of local telecoms and retail companies in Africa’s frontier markets, according to KPMG.
Africa’s biggest economy accounted for more than 70 percent of the sub-Saharan region’s $2.9 billion of private equity deals in 2008, but this share is [...]

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