Investing with impact in Africa

In a few years’ time, Africa will be populated by 2.4 billion people, and the continent still today concentrates on a large number of inequalities, both between countries and within their populations. An increasing number of African consumers are the recipients of the quality goods and services of the local companies we invest in.

By supporting national and regional players, we are encouraging economic diversification and stable employment creation in promising sectors, and helping to improve living conditions for local people.

Amethis is a signatory of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment and a member of the Operational Principles for Impact Management.

At Amethis, we aim to integrate climate considerations in the different regions and sectors in which we operate, which have their own specific characteristics, and to engage with our stakeholders to address this challenge together.

In our investment process, we carry out climate due diligence and design appropriate action plans, focused on mitigation and adaptation where relevant. We help companies carry out carbon footprints and set targets to manage emissions as well as progressing on environmental issues such as waste management, pollution and resource consumption.

Amethis is a Member of the Initiative Climat International.

As private equity investors, we are well equipped to support and create quality jobs. In particular, Amethis:

• Supports job creation within portfolio companies, including in disadvantaged regions such as Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Improves the quality of jobs, by helping companies progress on topics such as health & safety of employees, training, value sharing with employees.
• Contributes to women empowerment, as we work with a majority of companies to increase the proportion of women in the workforce and management teams.
• Invests in some sectors with intuitive direct and indirect employment.

Quality of employment and gender are included in our due diligences and the action plans we implement with our portfolio companies.

Amethis is a signatory of France Invest’s Charter for value-sharing with employees, and a participant to Level 20 that aim to improve gender diversity in the private equity industry.

We actively support our portfolio companies in implementing best practices in governance, which drives sustainable growth.

Our value-add in this area adresses various complementary angles:

• Human capital reinforcement: strengthening both management teams and boards of directors is paramount to achieve better results;
• Develop financial culture: we help companies improve their financial reporting, budgeting, and forecasting to optimize resource allocation and funding;
• Promoting gender diversity to bring women to leadership positions;
• Enacting business integrity practices is essential for sustainable business and expansion.
• We encourage the inclusion of ESG objectives in variable compensation and management packages.

When Amethis exits a potfolio company, it is significantly better equipped for long-term success than it was before our investment.

All our funds are classified as Article 8 or 9 under the EU regulation SFDR