Private equity firm
Ashburton Investments
Ashburton Investments is a Johannesburg-headquartered asset manager, private equity investor, and general partner founded in 1983 in Jersey, Channel Islands, before expanding into South Africa in 2013 as the consolidated investment management arm of financial services group FirstRand Limited. Operating as an institutional multi-asset general partner, the firm's core investment strategy focuses on deploying private equity growth checks, infrastructure capital, mezzanine finance, credit, and traditional multi-asset strategy allocations into established African enterprises and infrastructure assets. Ashburton Investments targets high-growth platforms operating across financial services, energy and utilities, logistics, telecommunications, healthcare, consumer staples, and industrial infrastructure.
Investment focus
- Sectors
- Financial servicesEnergy and powerManufacturing and industrialsHealthcareTechnologyConsumer
- Stages and strategies
- GrowthBuyout
- Instruments
- EquityDebtMezzanine
- Regions
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- African markets named in public materials
- South Africa
Funds managed
Sources
- Partner Researchers, accessed 14 November 2026