Real Estate Investment and Fund Management in East Africa: Presenting Private Equity Firm Fusion Group

Daniel Kamau, CEO of Fusion Group, a pioneering real estate investment and fund management company based in East Africa, gives an overview of the private equity firm.

“Fusion Group is basically a fund manager, a real estate developer, and investment manager. We develop and we will normally have skin in the game. We put our money into this development and we get involved in management of the sale and the entire process from structuring the investment, capital raising, managing the development, and selling or exiting whenever that happens. We also do fund management where we raise capital for high-net-worth individuals, family offices, or institutions, and deploy that money within East Africa. We are invested in Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda at the moment”, says Daniel Kamau.

“We are different for many reasons. First is the fact that unlike other private equity funds that are run remotely and use the fly in and out model, we are very local in our structure from our Board to our investment management teams. We understand our markets better than everybody else. We understand how land valuations have behaved over the last few years. Also, we get involved in this development. We roll up our sleeves and get ourselves to the sites to manage those sites. That really differentiates us. Also, the owners of the business co-invest alongside our investors. So, when we say we have skin in the game, this literally means that we have our own money that goes into these projects. That way, you achieve alignment with your investors”, he adds.

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