04/06/2016
Emerging markets: time to buy? - Schroders
The improvement in risk appetite comes at a time when aggregate emerging market valuations look attractive and investors have been waiting for an opportunity to re-enter the asset class.
Comment, Analysis & Research
04/06/2016
Who's afraid of privatisation in Africa? The successes, heartbreaks, and (sometimes bizarre) reversals
It's estimated that the number of state-owned enterprises in sub-Saharan Africa fell from 6,069 to 4,058 in just 5 years (1990-1995), a 33% reduction
04/05/2016
Understanding Africa
This is heartening when the continent is still routinely debased to clichés and narrow media themes.
04/05/2016
African nations urged to rethink incentives
The report indicates that over 3,000 bilateral investment treaties and double taxation treaties signed last year were from Africa.
04/04/2016
Capitec can stand up to junk, says bank boss
Capitec Bank CEO, Gerrie Fourie at the Melrose Arch Fire and Ice Hotel
04/04/2016
Partnerships will save banks from digital annihilation
Payment technology is one of the traditional banking channels most susceptible to challenge from fintech start-up companies
04/04/2016
Meet The Nigerian Lady Who Is Building The Fashion Amazon Of Africa
Dressmeoutlet.com strongly promotes made in Africa goods with the goal of retailing only the best 20% African designers.
04/03/2016
Finding Africa's diamond in the rough
Although he is still based in London, three years ago Hersov cleared his slate to create Invest Africa and now spends his waking moments encouraging and assisting hundreds of foreign investors to move into Africa.
04/03/2016
Tuna and Gunships: How $850 Million in Bonds Went Bad in Mozambique
Debt deal highlights the hazards for investors looking for yield in some of the world’s riskiest markets
04/02/2016
Meet the silent Nigerian billionaires
They live their lives far from the roving eyes of the public to make themselves relatively unknown.
04/01/2016
Man Walks Into a Bar: Pernod Ricard CEO's Late Foray Into Africa
Alexandre Ricard’s smile didn’t waver as he entered a tavern in the South African township of Soweto and saw one of Pernod Ricard’s most popular whiskies shelved behind steel grates capped with iron shards.
04/01/2016
Miton’s Anthony Rayner: “Emerging into the limelight”
As a result, our basket of stocks, which is small in aggregate, tends to avoid direct commodity exposure and the exporters.
03/31/2016
People ranked Africa’s richest and Zimbabweans the poorest
Mauritius was ranked ahead of South Africa with a per capita wealth of 10,300 dollars, Namibia (10,200 dollars), Botswana (8,400 dollars) and Algeria (6,200 dollars).
03/31/2016
This one graph shows that South Africans are leaving the country
The number of people selling their homes in South Africa in order to emigrate, increased steadily in 2015, data published by FNB shows.
03/30/2016
Debt demon looms again over Africa
An IMF-World Bank programme launched in 1996 has to date approved $76 billion (68 billion euros) in external debt relief for 36 of the world's heavily indebted poor nations, of which 30 are in Africa.
03/29/2016
Revived African Bank has its work cut out to find a sustainable strategy
Next week marks the culmination of one of the most challenging projects that our financial regulators have yet taken on: the official relaunch of African Bank as an independent, standalone entity.
03/29/2016
Deloitte 2016 Middle East TMT Predictions: Virtual reality to become a billion dollar niche
Governmental organizations will continue to maintain and promote a private cloud deployment due to regulatory requirements and a conscious decision to protect confidentiality and integrity of classified information.
03/28/2016
Tough year for MENA Fund Managers
The sector has risen from a few hundred million dollars at the turn of the century to more than $4bn at the end of 2015.
03/23/2016
Young banking sector ‘progressing fast’
Wegagen Bank President Araya G. Egziabher looks at this dynamic sector and discusses how private banks will be catalysts in attracting foreign investment.
03/23/2016
Multilateral Development Banks deliver value to Africa
The development financing role of multilateral development banks in emerging and developing countries is becoming more prominent and should be bolstered by the New Development Bank BRICS which officially opened its doors recently.