02/10/2014
The franchise model can turn the top-down corporate model upside down, since franchisees may actually become aggressive critics of how their customers are approached, with little patience for ineffective internal procedures.
02/07/2014
THE addition of several currencies, to those already in use — United States dollars, South Africa rand and others — by the Reserve Bank last week, though welcome, will not do much to alleviate the economic crisis the country is facing, analyst
02/05/2014
This feeds into views shared by Dave Foord of Foord Asset Management. For him the most valued quality in an asset manager is independent thought. The Foord Equity Fund and Foord Balanced Fund, both of which he co-manages, are both in the top five of their
02/03/2014
According to experts, Nigeria’s catch up to South Africa will be confirmed by the results of a planned rebasing of the country’s gross domestic product, with the new figures to be made known in early 2014.
01/31/2014
Mark Mobius, chairman of Templeton Emerging Markets Group, is picking Nigerian bank stocks ahead of South African peers as Johannesburg-based lenders battle rising bad-debt charges while trading at higher valuations.http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-0
01/29/2014
The time of reckoning is here for emerging markets. After benefiting from ultra-low interest rates and sluggish growth in developed economies in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, these markets are no longer looking so hot.
01/24/2014
While Hoey believes that inflation will rise eventually, he thinks it will drift higher only gradually over the coming years and that governments and central banks will be tolerant of that gradual upward drift in inflation.