African Private Equity - Growth or Value Investing? | The Annual Debate 2019

Moderator: Rob Hersov, Chairman, Invest Africa
Panellists: Ijeoma Agboti-Obatoyinbo, Chief Executive Officer, FBN
Quest
Scott Mackin, Managing Partner, Denham Capital
Greg Metro, Managing Director, Cerberus Frontier
Karima Ola, Partner, LeapFrog Investments
Rob Withagen, Chief Executive Officer, Asoko Insight

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Given our demographics, young population, future work force & spending power, urbanization rate and so many other prospects indicating high growth, why would any venture capital firm or private equity would opt to choose value investing? Anyways, whether it's value or growth investing, to me, these approaches are two sides of the same coin. Firms don't solely pick singular businesses with the same investment type ( value or growth ) but they diversify between those that have sustained a bit longevity, with incremental gains over the years ( less risk) and those young companies with steriod gains but sky rocketing risks. Interesting discussion!... Interesting is an understatement, I'm loving the discussion.