Managers of Wealth Africa

Meet the silent Nigerian billionaires

They live their lives far from the roving eyes of the public to make themselves relatively unknown.

Man Walks Into a Bar: Pernod Ricard CEO's Late Foray Into Africa

Alexandre Ricard’s smile didn’t waver as he entered a tavern in the South African township of Soweto and saw one of Pernod Ricard’s most popular whiskies shelved behind steel grates capped with iron shards.

Miton’s Anthony Rayner: “Emerging into the limelight”

As a result, our basket of stocks, which is small in aggregate, tends to avoid direct commodity exposure and the exporters.

People ranked Africa’s richest and Zimbabweans the poorest

Mauritius was ranked ahead of South Africa with a per capita wealth of 10,300 dollars, Namibia (10,200 dollars), Botswana (8,400 dollars) and Algeria (6,200 dollars).

This one graph shows that South Africans are leaving the country

The number of people selling their homes in South Africa in order to emigrate, increased steadily in 2015, data published by FNB shows.

Debt demon looms again over Africa

An IMF-World Bank programme launched in 1996 has to date approved $76 billion (68 billion euros) in external debt relief for 36 of the world's heavily indebted poor nations, of which 30 are in Africa.

Revived African Bank has its work cut out to find a sustainable strategy

Next week marks the culmination of one of the most challenging projects that our financial regulators have yet taken on: the official relaunch of African Bank as an independent, standalone entity.

Deloitte 2016 Middle East TMT Predictions: Virtual reality to become a billion dollar niche

Governmental organizations will continue to maintain and promote a private cloud deployment due to regulatory requirements and a conscious decision to protect confidentiality and integrity of classified information.

Tough year for MENA Fund Managers

The sector has risen from a few hundred million dollars at the turn of the century to more than $4bn at the end of 2015.

Young banking sector ‘progressing fast’

Wegagen Bank President Araya G. Egziabher looks at this dynamic sector and discusses how private banks will be catalysts in attracting foreign investment.

Multilateral Development Banks deliver value to Africa

The development financing role of multilateral development banks in emerging and developing countries is becoming more prominent and should be bolstered by the New Development Bank BRICS which officially opened its doors recently.

Fidelity Bank gets capital injection from UK equity firm

Fidelity Commercial Bank has received Sh1.9 billion from Duet Private Equity for regional expansion and to shore up the bank’s core capital.

Burundi tops the 13 unhappiest countries on Earth list

Aiming to "survey the scientific underpinnings of measuring and understanding subjective well-being," the report, now in its fourth edition, uses six components to rank 157 countries by happiness levels.

Robo-Advisors Are Disruptive, but Hybrid is Much More: It’s Transformational

In the recent report Robo-Advisors: The Hype, the Reality and the Future, published on February 29th by Gartner, Chuck Thomas notes the difference between digitization and digitalization applied to Wealth Management services. Our vision on what the future

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