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Norway Development Fund Bets Big on African Finance
LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) Norway’s state-run development fund, Norfund, is finding the fattest returns in Africa are in the financial industry. The $2 billion fund, which is more and more concentrating its investments in sub-Saharan Africa, placed more than half its new capital last year in financial institutions. That focus helped salvage returns last year. At the end of 2016, the fund had invested 16.8 billion kroner ($2 billion) in 124 companies, with renewable…
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