Their Core Philosophy
rivate equity investment in the “missing middle” is still relatively new in East Africa, and the Fund is expanding the spectrum of capital in the region by focusing on and specialising in financing businesses in this niche.

The following points outline their approach

The Fund will look to exit from its investments within 3-5 years. For the duration of its investment, the Fund will actively engage with portfolio companies by:
Taking equity stakes and thereby making a commitment to shareholders to share the same risks in executing their business plans
Offering support at all levels (shareholder, board and management) and providing crucial and strategic information, knowledge and strategy
Providing the resources needed for critical pre- and post- investment support, over and above the standard portfolio management via the Business Advisory Support Facility.

Their fund:

Fanisi makes equity investments of between US$0.5 million to US$3 million, per transaction, in:
Growth capital for businesses
Buyouts from going concerns
Start ups and early stage businesses
Established businesses with high growth potential.

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‘Ground-floor opportunity. ” For the decade ending Dec. 31, 2009, an African composite index made up of eight countries, including South Africa, Nigeria, and Egypt, returned about 14 percent annualized. South Africa alone returned an average of 13 percent per year over that period.

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Adlevo Capital was established to capitalize on the growing demand for infrastructure and services in sub-Saharan Africa. They focus on technology-enabled opportunities, which benefit from increased buying power of consumers. They believe that the application of technology to the provision of infrastructure and services is an essential determinant of sustainable social development outcomes and will generate compelling returns for investors.
Adlevo Capital make their investment decisions based on these here factors:
Strong management team
Large market opportunity
Consumer driven growth
Positive impact on WIRED attributes

Adlevo Capital Africa LLC

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According to Businessweek:”Capri Capital Partners is a principal investment firm specializing in mezzanine investments in real estate private and publicly held companies. The firm seeks to invest in real estate equity and debt-related products on behalf of pension funds and institutional investors. It makes investments in real estate with distinct competence in multifamily, industrial, commercial office, and retail.
It also provides equity joint ventures and acquires ownership between 50 per cent and 90 per cent, along with a preferred rate of return investments”

The company interest in the frontier market of Africa became apparent following their participation to the http://whartonafricaforum.com conference.

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• William Kamkwamba at MIT (makezine.com)

Emerging economies offer unique opportunities despite continuing global economic crisis. They need to stay on track in meeting their infrastructure development goals to sustain their growth

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Ivory Gold production will go from 1.5 tonnes to 8.5 tonnes in 2008 thanks to investment/extraction by Canadian mining company, Etruscan Ressources,[TSX:EET]that has been exploring for gold and diamonds in Africa for over 12 years. The Australian mining corporation,Equigold,[Asx:EQI],and British RandGold[Lse:RRS;Nasdaq:GOLD] also joined the ranks of the gold hunters in the Ivorian market.[Abidjan.net]

You can download and read the half year activity report, for the following companies listed on the Bourse Regionale Des Valeurs d’Abidjan:

SDV SAGA

Palm Ci

Nestle CI

Sodeci

Uniwax

Solibra

Total Ci

SAPH

Full available financial reports

“Recommandations and comments made by Dr. Mark Mobius, the executive Chairman of Franklin Templeton “

They are bargain hunters, they love cheap stocks and thus love bear markets
- Emerging markets look good for long term investors for several reasons: they are growing faster than developed countries, they have less debt, they have more reserves, inflation is coming down, they are taking up a lager share of world trade and also trading more with each other
- Bull markets are followed by bear markets which are followed by bull markets then bear……
- Bull markets last longer than bear markets, and values appreciate more during bear markets than they depreciate during bear markets. he said by their measures over the last 20 years bull markets last on average 22 months and values appreciate by 113% while bear markets on average last 6 months and values depreciate 32%
- Various FT funds are concentrated in mainly energy stocks, then banks, raw materials, communications etc.

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