Managers of Wealth Africa

IOCs’ divestment in focus as Nigeria seeks investments

The divestment, which started in 2010, saw a number of indigenous oil companies falling over themselves to snap up the assets.

A Global View Of GDPR PRogress

Participants in this study work in a variety of departments, including IT, IT security, compliance, legal, data protection office and privacy.

World's top 100 asset owners have $19trn in AUM

Largest asset owners are critical to aiding society’s biggest issues

How many wills is the way?

Anthea Stephens, Senior Associate, discusses the various options open to testators when drawing up a will or multiple wills to deal with multi-jurisdictional assets.

Gender equality: It’s time for disruption, time to shatter the status quo, we can’t afford to wait! By Vanessa Moungar, Director of Gender, Women and Civil Society

Women make up over 40% of African business owners yet only 2% are able to access finance according to a Mckinsey report.

Pension: Workers invest N951.28bn in banking sector

Within the same period, a total of N125.24 billion, representing 1.31 per cent was invested in state government securities while corporate debts securities gulped N621.95 billion, representing 6.49 per cent.

What FNB’s former CEO thinks about its cryptocurrency crackdown

I understand that banks may see blockchain as a threat to their payments franchise

Benefits of a beneficiary fund for your children

A significant advantage is that it is governed by a board of trustees tasked to act in the best interest of the child.

SA's finances a shambles and put pension funds at risk, says IRR

As the performance of SOEs drags the nation further into debt, the IRR warns that pensioners' savings could be under threat.

GTBank, Access, FBNH, Standard Chartered wrestle over women entrepreneurs

As they aim to close the $229 billion GDP gap

Investors pour almost $400m into African fintech in a week

Interswitch, OPay and PalmPay are expanding payments networks across the continent

Sarb model suggests rate on hold

Interest rate decision due later on Thursday.

How the South African FMCG space can learn from Kenya’s example

This requires invoices to be regenerated in trade, credit notes passed and cash to be collected.

South Africa’s rich are still giving — and they’re giving extra

Furthermore, the demographics of giving are changing and steadily becoming more diverse.

U.S., New Zealand, Canada and Israel are the top countries for women entrepreneurs

Women entrepreneurs are opening businesses at a higher rate than before, but challenges persist

Taking Advantage of Bear Market

While the NSE ASI has declined 15.1 per cent, some other sectoral indicators have recorded worse decline.

Mauritius: The new property hot spot

According to data analysis website Visual Capitalist, wealth markets refer to the total amount of assets that are owned by individuals within a jurisdiction.

Islamic finance becoming a global force, says report

It states that the industry was successfully building upon its Shariah-based principles of ethical and sustainable finance and banking to attract new clients

How Machine Learning is Changing Data Management and Investment Processes for Active Managers by Martijn Groot, Asset Control

The ability to analyse data has progressed to apply natural language processing to earning call transcripts to assess whether the tone of the CEO or CFO being interviewed is positive or negative.

Offshore-I: 2019 H1

Offshore-i is an Appleby report that analyses offshore deal data and provides expert insight into the world of offshore transactions.

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