05/08/2014
Nigeria’s Diamond Bank Plc will start meeting with global bond investors Wednesday as it attempts to sell its first ever dollar bond after shelving plans twice before. It could kick-start a mini-wave of international bond deals from the continent.
05/08/2014
Abuja - Liberty, the South African insurer controlled by Standard Bank, said its investment plans in Nigeria may be held back after a wave of deadly bombings and kidnappings in the West African country.
05/08/2014
Union Bank disclosed that it had already held discussions with the CBN and interested investors
05/07/2014
De Beers plans to raise diamond prices 5 percent every year, betting demand will help the world’s biggest miner of the precious stones meet parent Anglo American Plc’s target for returns.
05/05/2014
Our analysis of South Africa’s top multi-manager unit trusts last month found funds of funds perform better in multi-asset, rather than single-asset, categories.
05/05/2014
Etisalat agreed in November to buy Vivendi’s 53 percent stake in Maroc Telecom, Morocco’s biggest wireless carrier, for about 4.2 billion euros ($5.8 billion).
05/05/2014
Canadian Allie Morse is the founder and CEO of the online real estate marketplace Lamudi in West and Central Africa.
05/02/2014
The Fund is designed to enable unit holders achieve capital appreciation over time by obtaining exposure to equities while mitigating the volatility associated with investing in the Nigerian equities market.
05/01/2014
He further explained that the corporation can only buy bonds that the Central Bank of Nigeria designates.
04/28/2014
The PlexCrown ratings are based on four or five different measures of risk-adjusted performance over three and five years.
04/28/2014
Multi-asset funds that are suitable investment vehicles
04/27/2014
Citadel Capital the leading investment company in Africa and the Middle East, has exited its full 66.12% stake in Sudanese Egyptian Bank in a US$ 22 million sale to the Islamic Solidarity Bank of Sudan.
04/25/2014
Ghana's laws and mechanisms which regulate the use of its natural resource funds are the best in Africa, the Revenue Watch Institute has concluded.
04/25/2014
The companies said they believe “2014 will be the year of Africa’s bond market”
04/25/2014
The key characteristics of this digital cash also happen to make it a great fit for people
04/24/2014
Municipal bond sales are set to top R3bn in the first half of this year after reaching R2.9bn for the whole of last year
04/23/2014
The International Finance Corp. started marketing local-currency bonds in Rwanda, which is marking 20 years since a genocide that killed at least 800,000 people, as it expands an African debt program.
04/23/2014
The Chief Executive Officer of Stanbic IBTC Holdings Plc, Mrs. Sola David-Borha, has advised Small and Medium Enterprises in the country to tap into the power sector reforms for business growth.
04/17/2014
Last month Blackstar upped its stake
04/17/2014
Ashburton goes off the beaten track
When FirstRand unbundled Momentum in December 2010 it also exited the fund management business, as RMB Asset Management was a wholly owned subsidiary of Momentum.