Philosophy and Vision
First, Africa is proving to be one of the arenas for moving regional trade negotiations forward. With the recent enactment of Continental Free Trade Agreement (CFTA) and Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM), African governments made a critical step towards creating the world’s largest trading area.
Second, we believe Africa has a lot of untapped potential and will continue to offer significant long term growth, but harnessing this growth relies on a hands on, highly experienced team working across a geographically and sector diversified portfolio of holdings.
Third, in spite of enormous entrepreneurial energy, a significant number of enterprises across Africa still have a big challenge with scaling up. Consequently, there are very few continental wide enterprises.
Our goal is therefore develop high portfolio of scalable enterprises across African continent, led by excellent teams that operate to international standards. In doing so, it can generate above average returns over the long-term through a combination of capital appreciation and income generation. We achieve this through actively advising and investing not only through financial capital investment but also offering operational and strategic support in four key intervention areas – mining, energy , integrated agri-business and technology driven enterprises.
Lastly, we also have a strong focus on the welfare of people and the environment in each of the areas in which we operate as we believe that one of the most critical ways of protecting an investment for the long term is managing its eco-system. People and planet standards as we call them, are measures we incorporate into our businesses to maximize the environmental and social benefit of our investments, alongside economic returns to our shareholders.
