01/15/2014
Private wealth is increasingly shaping the world's real estate markets and the use of private equity in major property deals worth at least US$10 million has nearly trebled since 2009.
01/13/2014
he World Bank's Vice President for Africa, Makhtar Diop, will visit Angola from January 15 -16, 2014 for development talks with President José Eduardo dos Santos, the Ministers of Finance, Planning and Territorial Development, and the Governor
01/09/2014
SA firms must factor in eurozone’s problems
The recessionary effects have also been mitigated by the rise of China and its demand for natural resources, which has contributed significantly the shift in global economic power.
01/06/2014
Unemployment, independent of any other factor, threatens to derail the economic promise that Africa deserves.
01/06/2014
Furthermore, just 12 per cent of respondents believe that regulators fully understand how the financial crisis happened in the first place.
01/06/2014
More than a third (35%) of global financial services professionals working in banks, asset management and hedge funds believe that executives should be held criminally liable for the actions of staff.
12/31/2013
What will happen in 2014? The Chinese economy will slow; the price of oil will sink; Germany will slide into recession; the EU will remain intact and the internet will begin to Balkanise
12/31/2013
Africa still has much to do to boost financial inclusion, report finds
AFRICA may be the second fastest-growing region, after Asia, but it lags the world in financial inclusion, according to a report from the African Development Bank.
12/24/2013
Even if Bitcoin fails, cryptocurrencies are here to stay
Is paper money headed for obsolescence, swept aside by the meteoric rise of Bitcoin?
12/23/2013
Now to read the words of the wise
12/20/2013
The occasion, which took place over two days in what may safely be described as South Africa’s tourism capital, gave an insight into what may eventually be the investment pattern in Africa’s emerging markets.
12/18/2013
Back in 2011, Doshi, an investment banker whose career had taken him to London, New York and Amman, returned to his native country Kenya to visit his parents
12/17/2013
Respondents in China are the most cautious, with only 48% expecting the global economy to expand in the coming year.
12/16/2013
There are those that focus on money market while there are those with combination of both markets. With this, investors have the opportunity to decide which to invest in unlike direct buying of one stock,' he said.
12/15/2013
There are a couple of things that separates China from the other countries. The first one is the scale of engagement.
12/15/2013
The performance of Africa’s equity market has been solid during 2013; equalling or outperforming emerging markets as robust economic reforms continues to foster the growth of local companies, which eventually become buyers and sellers of equity. Da
12/15/2013
Bitcoin could be Paypal 2.0, but it will never be the dollar 2.0. Not when prices would have had to fall 98.5 percent the past year if they'd been set in terms of Bitcoin.
12/11/2013
Potential opportunities for hedge funds and for UK commercial property
12/11/2013
‘Why African Attracts More Foreign Investments’
An international finance expert and top executive of Nedbank of South Africa, Mr. Dennis Dykes, has explained why Africa would continue to attract more foreign investment than other regions in the world.
12/11/2013
This failure can partly be attributed to a combination of poor governance and a high level of corruption.