Sustainable Investment in sub-Saharan Africa
This is the 6th in a series of reports commissioned by the International Finance Corporation on sustainable investment in emerging economies, and the first with a specific focus on private equity. The report investigates the state and trajectory of sustainable investment in South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya, and provides recommendations to stimulate such...
Today’s Trustee: Back to Basics 6
WHOOPS! SO THAT’S HOW MUCH SHARE TRADES COST? They can make a big difference to fund performance. Jacobus Troveri, head of RisCura Transition, discusses the advantages of TCA....
RisCura South Africa Private Equity Performance Report
We are pleased to release the first version of the RisCura South African Private Equity Performance Report.This report tracks the performance of a representative basket of South African private equity funds and will be released quarterly on an ongoing basis.The purpose of the report is to provide stakeholders of South African private equity with more...
Catalyst: Revision to Reg 28 gives private equity a chance to prove its worth
In December 2010, the National Treasury issued a second take on the revised Regulation 28 of the Pensions Fund Act. Reg 28 sets prudential limits on the allocations that South African pension funds make to different asset classes and has historically restricted investment into unlisted equity to part of a 5% allocation with other alternative...
Catalyst: Rory Ord
Pension funds carry the responsibility of providing a means to a comfortable retirement for their members. To fulfil this responsibility, pension fund trustees must make appropriate allocations to asset classes in order to grow the fund’s assets to satisfy the liabilities created by the payouts to retiring members....