Count Down to Africa
RENEW’s Matt Davis will deploy to Kampala, Uganda in late October, 2008 as the next step in establishing RENEW’s long term presence in East Africa. Over the next months, he will continue to build RENEW’s network in Africa, provide information services to clients abroad, establish and test impact investment metrics, source and coordinate opportunities, help clients grow investments, and work to increase the efficiency with which impact investment capital is deployed to East Africa.
Benchmarking the Potential of Eight African Countries
An interesting article entitled The Rise of Africa’s ‘Frontier’ Markets appeared recently in the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) quarterly magazine, Finance and Development. In it author David Nellor singles out eight African countries (Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia) and benchmarks them against Asian countries that started to take off in 1980. The numbers (see table below) are pretty interesting.
Investing in Unfamiliar Territory
We believe that some of the strongest opportunities for financial growth and social impact currently exist in Africa. Contact us if you would like to define a strategy for investing in emerging African economies.
Here are ten reasons why we recommend that our clients consider investing in Africa:
RENEW's Brand Story
Picture it.
Your plane just landed in a new country. Based on what other people have mentioned, you are excited to explore all the possibilities of this new place. As you exit the plane you are faced with the hard realities that you already knew. You don’t speak the local language or understand the native customs. And more than that, the long trip has left you exhausted and bleary-eyed. You scan the airport for something, anything recognizable — a sign, symbol or friendly face that will point you in the right direction.
Enter RENEW: navigating today’s emerging economies.