Given Africa’s sustained growth rate of over 6% a year for the past 10 years, paired with slowdowns in some other emerging markets, global investors are paying more attention to…

It is becoming increasingly clear that African listed equity may serve as a complement to any general investor’s portfolio. With sufficient analysis to determine where the real risks lie, the…

Spoilt for choice. That’s us. Consider, for example, the barista-in-a-box coffee machines that are all the rage - the ones that use those little coffee capsules.  The array of choices…

Why do private equity firms prefer certain markets in Africa over others? When one examines the risk factors for high growth in Africa, it is clear why these markets receive…

The African continent continues to expand and is receiving increasing focus from investment houses worldwide. The myriad untapped resources and economic opportunities provide many areas for potential frontier market investments.…

In 2013, East Africa saw increased activity in the oil and gas sector. Tullow Oil plc rounded off the year with a fifth successive oil discovery in Kenya. This comes…

RisCura, the investment advisors specialising in emerging and frontier markets, along with the African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA), and the South African Venture Capital and Private Equity…