09/24/2018
Impact investing in Africa
This prominent position of Impact Investment is anticipated to strengthen, with Sub-Saharan Africa identified as the geographic area into which most surveyed investors intend to increase their allocations.
09/24/2018
Aston Villa, Barnsley, Stoke, West Brom, Bristol City and Preston all have owners or majority shareholders with estimated wealths in 10 figures.
09/24/2018
The 10th place goes to Accra in Ghana, holding a total wealth of $38 billion.
09/24/2018
Growing demand for Sharia-compliant assets expected to drive growth
09/24/2018
Billions of dollars were waved around as Germany steps up its presence in Africa, buoyed by Merkel’s popularity because of her policy on migrants.
09/24/2018
Islamic finance is set to grow steadily across Africa as financing needs increase
09/23/2018
As if that was not enough, another friend-turned-foe, Sammy Boit arap Kogo was in the court vicinity, with police officers in town, ready to pounce on him, had the court given him back his freedom.
09/21/2018
It includes all their assets (property, cash, equities, business interests) less any liabilities,” adding that with this methodology, countries with larger populations are expected to rank highly.
09/21/2018
With a liaison office already set up in Kenya, Mr Omar said he plans to meet Kenyan government officials to explore opportunities for the benefit of citizens.
09/20/2018
Discussions with President Trump bordered on South Sudan’s peace treaty, straight flights from Kenya to the United States and the Kenya-U.S. bilateral agreements.
09/20/2018
Some countries like Algeria and DR Congo are not covered due to lack of credible data.
09/20/2018
AIF will bring together global private capital and investment funds, sovereign wealth funds and the private sector, for what is primarily being billed as a transactional marketplace to bridge Africa’s $68 – $170 billion infrastructure gap.
09/20/2018
The report was commissioned by the National Treasury.
09/19/2018
New carbon pricing initiatives in some countries, such as China’s emissions trading scheme and renewed efforts in Canada and France to price carbon, could significantly reduce these gaps.
09/19/2018
Central bankers in Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya are likely to keep key rates unchanged at their meetings next week.
09/18/2018
We expect Mauritius, Ghana, Rwanda and Uganda to be the strongest performing wealth markets in Africa during this period (with 90 per cent to 150 per cent growth rates).
09/18/2018
"Our fear now is that if the federal government does not act fast the 34 billion naira in this years budget would still not be disbursed to pensioners”
09/18/2018
Unfortunately, most Kenyans do not know the answers to these questions.
09/18/2018
FNB’s recent annual results show that the retail banking division delivered 18% profit growth against the backdrop of a tough economic environment.
09/17/2018
Ogbobine said the bulk of financing for infrastructure would come from borrowing with a larger share being domestic debts.