05/05/2017
Ivory Coast, Senegal and other African nations feature on investors’ radars
We all recognise that we need to be very selective about the markets we focus on
Alternative Investments
05/02/2017
Sanlam goes after funds lost due to Rwanda fraud
Rwanda businesses improving under new management.
05/02/2017
Peregrine's South African hedge funds end Q1 with moderate gains
Industrials stand out as the top performer for the month when taking a closer look at the sectoral indices with a very good +4.7% for March.
05/02/2017
HF Group live with new core banking system, Intrasoft’s Profits
The deal came at the time of Greece-based Intrasoft looking for new markets and targeting Africa.
05/02/2017
Convergence of Africa Capital Markets: Africa’s Efforts to Pool Together its Liquidity
Now, more than ever, market forces are calling for the convergence of African capital markets as one potential solution to the problem.
04/27/2017
Private equity sparks revival at Ugandan utility Umeme
Partnership is a rare example of successful collaboration in the country
04/27/2017
AMCON promises to ensure success of asset management programme
Asset Management Partners are consortiums with specialist skills required to ensure recovery and debt resolution; banking, legal, valuation and accounting.
04/27/2017
Zimbabwe says it has met all conditions to clear arrears to World Bank, AfDB
The southern African nation in October last year cleared its 15-year-old financial arrears with the IMF
04/26/2017
Tunisia receives € 93 million in funding from the World Bank
The project is based on a number of important elements
04/26/2017
In Côte d’Ivoire, Attijari group will help create two tourism-focused investment funds
The second fund for its part is a sovereign fund also dedicated to tourism’s financing
04/26/2017
Sotheby’s to Hold Its First-Ever Contemporary African Art Sale
The auction house enters a market that's heated up dramatically over the last 10 years.
04/25/2017
Côte d’Ivoire becomes third country to join The African Trade Insurance Agency
Côte d’Ivoire and Zimbabwe as well as an increase in the capital subscription of Benin.
04/24/2017
Private equity seeks the sweet spot in Africa
The industry is ‘soul searching’ as funds consider how to operate in more difficult conditions.
04/24/2017
Private Equity Is Not Dead, But Maybe It’s Time For More Hedge Funds In Africa
Hedge funds and private equity funds do not operate in opposition to each other.
04/24/2017
Imperial’s sale of Regent to Hollard gets the greenlight
Approval from the Competition Commission follows the withdrawal of MotoVantage, a partnership between FirstRand and Hollard
04/24/2017
Tanzanian graphite project proves positive for Black Rock
Black Rock was now completing negotiations construction partners
04/23/2017
Uganda ready to welcome Qatar’s Islamic banks
The minister said that Uganda is also inviting Qatari investment to extract its untapped crude oil
04/20/2017
JSE’s first Africa-focused ETF makes its debut
An exchange-traded fund offering 50 African blue-chip companies outside SA has begun trading on the local bourse.
04/19/2017
Moroccan King urges Arab financial groups to boost development funding
He said regional and international financial and economic turmoil, including decline of oil prices, have affected the Arab economies.
04/19/2017
Uganda: Reforms - Will Pensioners Benefit From NSSF's Loss of Monopoly?
One of the key ingredients is for regulation of voluntary saving schemes in the informal sector and also removing the minimum of the five employees provision for the employer to start contributing.