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Private Equity News Africa web site is an online news and information service. It is the only private equity site targeted specifically at institutional investors, private equity firms and investment management companies, professional advisers. It contains coverage of the industry in Africa, plus opinions and analysis of the trends apparent in today’s private equity market.

PrivateEquityNews’s aim is to deliver the essential news and information of the private equity industry as it happens. Our strength is in that we are niche and focus on local and Africa private equity news, as well as any reforms might have on the wider financial services market.

The team strives to deliver news and analysis which is specialist and agenda-setting yet simple to understand – essentially harnessing the key facets applied to web journalism.

Not only has Private Equity News become a ‘must-read’ for financial professionals, but the team is constantly driving new ideas in content delivery to harness the development of technology.

We regularly receive and publish feedback from readers about the content and quality of our stories, as well as encouraging readers to give us feedback, and this may influence the type of stories or subjects we look at on a weekly basis.

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The origins of Islamic private equity in the Gulf
The Islamic private equity industry is a very young one and traces its roots back less than a decade.

Private Equity Primer : Fund structure
Funds are typically structured as limited liability partnerships.

Guide to Private Equity
This report is produced by The BVCA that represents private equity and venture capital in the UK. It may be closely related to private equity of Africa.

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On the Real Effects of Private Equity Investment Evidence from New Business Creation by Alexander

Using a comprehensive database of European firms, we study how private equity affects the rate of firm entry. We find that private equity investment benefits new business incorporation, especially in industries with naturally higher entry rates and R&D intensity. A two standard deviation increase in private equity investment explains as much as 5.5% of the variation in entry between high-entry and low-entry industries. We address endogeneity by exploiting data on laws that regulate private equity investments by pension funds. Our results hold when we correct for barriers to entry,general access to credit, protection of intellectual property, and labor regulations.

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