02/27/2014
FirstRand Ltd., South Africa’s second-biggest financial services company, said first-half earnings will be as much as 26 percent higher as the company added retail banking customers.
02/25/2014
The report, titled "Long-Run Investment Ambitions and Short-Run Investment Processes," finds long-term asset management challenges and increasing risk management in real estate investments.
02/24/2014
After Jim O’Neill of Goldman Sachs coined the acronym “BRIC” to refer to top emerging markets Brazil, Russia, India and China, he has now popularized “MINT” – Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey as a second category.
02/24/2014
Angola, Namibia and Nigeria are the fastest growing countries in Africa in terms of wealth per capita, according to a report by New World Wealth.
02/24/2014
Global assets under management (AuM) will rise to around $101.7 trillion by 2020, from a 2012 total of $63.9 trillion, says a PwC report released today. This represents a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 6%.
02/20/2014
First bank, the largest financial service institution in Nigeria, has partnered with Hong Kong in the Invest Hong Kong programme with the interest of expanding various Nigerian businesses abroad.
02/12/2014
The only conclusions must be two-fold: first, that they are comfortable applying the identical interest rate above the repo rate imposed by the Reserve Bank and, second, that there aren’t enough of them around to impel competition.
02/11/2014
The objective of the popular ranking, according to the report, is to gain insight into which individuals and brands the public recognize as effective social media advocates and practitioners.