13th May 2011
Investing in Africa requires a certain level of business maturity and sophistication (see African investment part 1: Africa is an opportunity to get investment right, on this website) that goes well beyond pure financial erudition.
The primary reason i...
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21st April 2011
Africa is a unique investment destination for many obvious and well discussed reasons. Perhaps the most obvious is the fact that it is now recognised as one of the last places on earth where super returns are possible.
Its uniqueness also derives from ...
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16th March 2011
Just as Africa is being touted as the last investment frontier capable of delivering super returns, the recent populist ousting of Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, and Tunisian president, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, has raised for many investors the contin...
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23rd February 2011
Volumes in 2011 are poised to be higher than 2010 but the general trends in private equity in Africa will remain consistent with those seen in the past several years – and be focused primarily on consumer-facing sectors.
Retail, housing, and financial ...
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23rd February 2011
Private equity and other investors who haven’t spent time on the ground are making the fundamental mistake of trying to segment the African continent by region.
For instance, at the inaugural Super Returns Africa 2010 conference (29th November to 3rd D...
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23rd February 2011
Yes, investing in an emerging economy is challenging. It’s also incredibly rewarding – because, if you do it right, it’s a way of making significant money while also making a direct and profound difference to the lives of ordinary people.
For private ...
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23rd February 2011
Africa is the last place on earth where investors will be able to make ‘super’ returns. Over time, GDP growth in Africa is expected to outpace that in most developing economies, including the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) countrie...
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William Jimerson, founder and executive director of Musa Capital, was born in Mississippi in the United States, studied at MIT, and worked on Wall Street as a financial analyst, before forming Musa Capital with three friends. The firm now has a fifteen-year track record of growing small to medium sized businesses that want to expand but are too big for donor organisations and too small to interest large investor firms. www.musacapital.com
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