African capital markets are largely underperforming in creating access to capital for local entrepreneurs, and facilitating real economic growth. In this episode, we reflect on the current state of our local capital markets, the hurdles ahead, and the progress that's been made. To give us some perspective, we are joined by Gerald Gondo, a business development executive at RisCura.
More about Gerald Gondo:
With a wealth of frontline investment management experience in Africa, Gerald serves as an Executive within RisCura Africa and is responsible for Business Development. Prior to joining RisCura, he was a founding partner of a specialist investment advisory and investment management business (Atria Africa) based in Mauritius. Gerald’s passion to have first-hand experience in investing in Africa led him to join a leading pan-African asset manager, Imara Asset Management, where he had dual responsibility of being lead analyst on listed equities in Egypt, Morocco, Zambia and Mauritius whilst also building the fixed income capability of Imara Asset Management in Zimbabwe. He started his career in private equity investment in Sub-Saharan Africa with Business Partners and has also worked as a credit analyst for Futuregrowth Asset Management.
About RisCura:
RisCura is a purpose-driven global investment firm that offers investors unique insights and guidance to help shape the future world we all want to live in whilst still achieving and exceeding financial goals for its clients.
Impact Investing: RisCura is applying its extensive institutional investment experience to impact investing and has launched South Africa’s first Impact fund of funds series in line with the globally recognised definition of impact investing “to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact” within South Africa while still delivering competitive investment returns. The impact funds in this series focus on unlisted debt, unlisted property and unlisted equity. Using a fund of funds structure enables us to create a pooling mechanism for long term impact capital that can provide a stable source of funding for commercially competitive impact and development projects that align to both South Africa’s National Development Plan (NDP) and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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