May 7th, 2008
Via Reuters, a recent report that influential emerging markets fund manager Mark Mobius said on Friday that he was in talks for private equity investments in Iraq. As noted in the article:
“We are looking at private equity in Iraq and are meeting with representatives in Iraq. There are smaller companies in manufacturing, the services and food industries that are keen for investment,” Mobius told Reuters over the telephone from Hong Kong.
…If Templeton moves ahead with its plans for Iraq, it would become among the first private-equity investors in the country since the U.S. invasion in 2003, said Jennifer Choi, director of research for the U.S.-based Emerging Markets Private Equity Association.
Few institutional investors have managed to overcome concerns over Iraq’s security situation despite the promise of its oil and gas resources. One of the few exceptions is Luxembourg-based Godvig Capital Management, whose hedge fund Babylon Fund is focused on Iraq…”
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