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Brait chief executive talks the turnaround story on results day

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Once the darling of the local bourse, Brait's fall from grace over the past few years has been short of disastrous. The private-equity powerhouse turned debt-laden investment house has left a sour taste in many portfolio managers mouths, with value destruction totalling hundreds of billions of rands. Peter Hayward-Butt has the unenviable task of getting the once juggernaut back on track and formed part of the BizNews Power Hour on results day. Peter, an ex-investment banker and also chief executive of Ethos Private Equity, was quietly confident on the performance of the underlying businesses throughout the Covid period, maintaining that company has a number of quality businesses within the Brait stable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
23 Jun 2021 11AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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