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Article: Actis Raises US$750 Million for Investment in Infrastructure Across the Emerging Markets.
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- China Weekly News
- Article date:
- October 20, 2009
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Actis, a leading private equity investor in emerging markets, today
announced that it has successfully held a final close on its US$750m Actis Infrastructure 2 fund. This pan-emerging markets fund will focus principally on opportunities in power generation and transport.
Paul Fletcher, Senior Partner at Actis said, "The need to build infrastructure in emerging markets is one of the great investment themes of our time - power, roads, ports, airports and bridges - these are the means through which these countries will continue to grow and prosper."
Actis's presence on the ground across Africa, China, India, Latin America and South East Asia gives ...