Our Approach to Private Equity Investments

We believe in a proactive approach to investing and hence our consistent application of a private equity investment model in all our investment activities, characterised by the following:

• Strong focus on aggressive financial and operational restructuring within one year of our investment as this is critical to creating a strong foundation that can underpin growth and value creation within our investment horizon.
• Holding at least 2 board seats on the boards of our investee companies.
• Medium- to long-term investment holding period.
• Holding at least 25.1% shareholding in our investee companies so that we have influence. In instances where we hold less than 25.1%, we ensure that our investment structure provides that we still have influence.
• Target IRR of 30% in BWP.
• Investing in partnership with strong international operators with technical know-how, financial capacity and experience, and/or management teams.
• Prudent accounting for our investments.
• Strong focus on portfolio management post one year from our investment, characterised by effective management and monitoring of our investments.
• Our portfolio management process requires, amongst others, various technical skills, ranging from financial, risk management, business, devising and negotiating exit.
• Structured exit from our proprietary investments through one or a combination of the following: 
  • Sale to our investment/operating partners;
  • Sale to other financial investors; and/or
  • IPO of our investee companies.