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Africa Lighthouse eyes bigger kitty for Fund2

Eyeing growth: Pule
Eyeing growth: Pule

Local private equity asset manager, Africa Lighthouse Capital (ALC), has announced plans to launch its second investment fund next year, targeting mega investments in high-growth companies both locally and internationally.

The Botswana Public Officers Pension Fund invested half a billion in ALC’s first fund to invest in local private equities, alongside undisclosed investment amounts from six other private and public pension funds.

This time the fund manager expects the second fund to raise even larger investment sums from new and existing investors.

Editor's Comment
BPF should get house in order

Speaker of the National Assembly, Dithapelo Keorapetse, has this week rightly washed his hands of the mess, refusing to wade into a party squabble that has no clear leadership and no single version of the truth.When a single party sends six different letters to the Speaker’s office, each claiming to be the authoritative voice, it is not just confusion, but an embarrassment.Keorapetse is correct to insist on institutional boundaries. Parliament...

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