About Us
Neptune Beach Capital Partners is a private investment management company focused primarily on alternative investment opportunities in the emerging and frontier economies of Africa.
Our investment style incorporates discipline, and is not restricted to conventional or narrowly defined parameters. Our experience across investment disciplines and geographies, combined with our specialist skills and cross-border transaction capability gives us the ability to offer investors unique opportunities in trade finance, commodities, public and private debt, and real estate.
We seek to deliver to our investors, year over year consistent non-correlated total returns, in bullish and bearish markets.
Jean-Briers Bakkes
Co-Founder
Gboyega Festus
Co-Founder, CEO & Chief Investment Officer
Industry Expertise
Our expertise and skill set, in addition to deciphering investment opportunities in emerging and frontier economies, include rigorous due diligence especially in the area of know your customer (KYC) requirements, operational evaluations, and independent, comprehensive risk reviews.
Investment Professionals
The members of the team have broad, complementary experience in finance, banking, trade, investment management and operations. The team’s deep and hands-on experience in our target areas offers important advantages in our key business development areas. They utilize their extensive industry knowledge and network of relationships to identify and evaluate investment opportunities.
Operational Capability
Our operating partners, service providers and principals apply innovative and best-in-class techniques to achieve strong performance of our funds’ underlying assets. Members of the team have business and functional experience from leading global financial institutions, and bring a wealth of expertise and best practices to bear, helping to drive operational efficiency and value creation.
Advisors
We actively seek the support of advisors on emerging and frontier market research and intelligence, due diligence, compliance, risk management and transaction execution.
Industry Expertise
Our expertise and skill set, in addition to deciphering investment opportunities in emerging and frontier economies, include rigorous due diligence especially in the area of know your customer (KYC) requirements, operational evaluations, and independent, comprehensive risk reviews.
Investment Professionals
The members of the team have broad, complementary experience in finance, banking, trade, investment management and operations. The team’s deep and hands-on experience in our target areas offers important advantages in our key business development areas. They utilize their extensive industry knowledge and network of relationships to identify and evaluate investment opportunities.
Operational Capability
Our operating partners, service providers and principals apply innovative and best-in-class techniques to achieve strong performance of our funds’ underlying assets. Members of the team have business and functional experience from leading global financial institutions, and bring a wealth of expertise and best practices to bear, helping to drive operational efficiency and value creation.
Advisors
We actively seek the support of advisors on emerging and frontier market research and intelligence, due diligence, compliance, risk management and transaction execution.
Creating Jobs via Trade Facilitation
The World Trade Organizations World Trade Report 2017 indicates that trade increases productivity and welfare, like technological change does. The report also finds that opening up to trade increases a country’s welfare through static gains for example, by allocating productive resources more efficiently through greater specialization. There are also dynamic gains, by encouraging the exchange of ideas that in turn accelerates innovation. The static gains from trade alone are significant, some estimates indicating that gains from trade can be as high as one-third of a country’s GDP compared to autarky.
Many people work in trade-related activities, and jobs are created not only to fulfill a country’s domestic demand, but also to produce goods and services that are directly exported to other countries, or that are used to produce goods and services that will be exported by other firms. Not only export-related activities, but also import-related activities produce jobs. In addition, both exporting and importing firms pay higher wages. Evidence of the impact of trade on a country’s aggregate labor market shows that trade tends to increase overall employment and real wages. There is evidence in developing countries that it is not only the wages of skilled workers, but also the wages of unskilled workers, that increase thanks to trade. Furthermore, trade increases the purchasing power of poor, low-skilled workers more by enabling them to purchase cheaper imported products, and therefore its impact on the relative real wage can be favorable to the poorer.
The WTO estimates that 80 to 90 percent of world trade relies on trade finance (trade credit and insurance/guarantees), mostly of a short-term nature. The primary objective of the fund managed by the firm is to help bridge the two-way funding gap experienced when trading with the frontier economies of Africa.
