{"id":9872,"date":"2012-04-13T04:09:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T02:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/latin-america-top-choice-for-emerging-private-equity-survey\/"},"modified":"2012-04-13T04:09:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T02:09:01","slug":"latin-america-top-choice-for-emerging-private-equity-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/latin-america-top-choice-for-emerging-private-equity-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Latin America top choice for emerging private equity-survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Latin America, excl. Brazil, tops list of EM PE<br \/>\ndestinations<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Less penetrated markets like Turkey, sub-Saharan Africa<br \/>\nbecome more popular<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* India, Central and Eastern Europe slip in rankings<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* PE investors could look to Greece for opportunities<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Clare Kane<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, April 13 (Reuters) &#8211; Latin America, excluding<br \/>\nBrazil, has overtaken that country to become the number one<br \/>\ndestination for emerging market private equity investors over<br \/>\nthe next year, as they prefer Mexico, Colombia and Peru,<br \/>\naccording to a survey released on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Latin America jumped from fourth to first place in the<br \/>\nEmerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA) 2012 survey<br \/>\nof 106 private equity investors in 28 countries, with Brazil,<br \/>\nChina and southeast Asia trailing as favoured places.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People will point to the attractive macroeconomic<br \/>\nfundamentals in (Latin America), sizable populations but also an<br \/>\nemerging middle class and rising spending levels among large<br \/>\nportions of those populations,&#8221; said Jennifer Choi, vice<br \/>\npresident of industry and external affairs at EMPEA.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reality is with several billion dollar-plus funds<br \/>\nraised for Brazil in 2011, investors are rightfully thinking<br \/>\nabout what sorts of valuations that might create with the number<br \/>\nof funds, and what impact that might have on returns.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Latin America, excl. Brazil, tops list of EM PE destinations * Less penetrated markets like Turkey, sub-Saharan Africa become more popular * India, Central and Eastern Europe slip in rankings * PE investors could look to Greece for opportunities By Clare Kane LONDON, April 13 (Reuters) &#8211; Latin America, excluding Brazil, has overtaken that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-9872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}