This paper examines the syndication behaviour of South African private equity and venture capital firms. Three possible rationales for syndication are tested: risk reduction through portfolio diversification (finance rationale), accessing the skills of other firms (resource-based rationale) and improved ...
We investigate the investment performance of a sample set of 11 South African private equity funds over a 13-year period and find a performance premium of 18% p.a. relative to listed South African equities and a low correlation to the performance of conventional asset classes. We further find...
Staying or going private works because the private co-owners and managers of their business operations are very likely to focus narrowly on realising a cost of capital beating return on the capital at risk, including their own capital. The controllers of the private equity funds are aware of th...
Tlhakudi declined to name the potential suitors, but the government has said previously that private equity firms and potential aviation partners have made approaches.Ethiopian Airlines(ET,Addis Ababa International) has expressed an interest in the past. Ideally, the government wants SAA to resume op...
Table 1 Top five firms by number of products registered in the South African private and public pharmaceutical market, 2017 Full size table Like all countries, South Africa has both health and industrial interests in pharmaceuticals. The former is largely the preserve of the Department of Health ...
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The study investigates the performance gap between female-owned enterprises (FOEs) and their male-owned (MOEs) peers, using data obtained from 1,522 firms included in the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) on Kenya and South Africa. We find that FOEs underperform their MOE counterparts and th...
The city is a home to hedge funds, private equity and venture capital firms including Investec Asset Management as well as Remgro’s dedicated venture capital investment company InVenfin.A lot of international finance institutions, such as JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank, in fact have offices in both...