02/03/2014
According to experts, Nigeria’s catch up to South Africa will be confirmed by the results of a planned rebasing of the country’s gross domestic product, with the new figures to be made known in early 2014.
02/03/2014
When the United Nations Development Programme published its Human Development Report in 2013, it contained powerful insights about the increasingly important role developing countries.
01/31/2014
Mark Mobius, chairman of Templeton Emerging Markets Group, is picking Nigerian bank stocks ahead of South African peers as Johannesburg-based lenders battle rising bad-debt charges while trading at higher valuations.http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-0
01/30/2014
"The banks that embrace change and systematically transform themselves to become more customer-centric will achieve a competitive advantage in the marketplace."
01/29/2014
The time of reckoning is here for emerging markets. After benefiting from ultra-low interest rates and sluggish growth in developed economies in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, these markets are no longer looking so hot.
01/28/2014
The company said it doesn’t expect to raise bank ratings this year.
01/24/2014
While Hoey believes that inflation will rise eventually, he thinks it will drift higher only gradually over the coming years and that governments and central banks will be tolerant of that gradual upward drift in inflation.
01/24/2014
Top South African road runner Rene Kalmer will not be running in Nedbank colours this year, after her contract was not renewed for the 2014 season
01/23/2014
Lazard’s Paul Rogers explains how the group is positioning its portfolio in this tough period for the market and looking for opportunities in undervalued consumer discretionary stocks.
01/22/2014
But finding that growth has gotten tougher.
01/21/2014
Kenya’s Banking Revolution Lights a Fire
Those models are certainly valid: The “Asian Tigers” lifted millions of people out of poverty by relying on an efficient public sector based on rigid meritocracy and little tolerance for corruption.
01/20/2014
King Mswati III is really committed to this whole international-air-hub thing. Call it a folie-à-un, because no one else is sold
01/20/2014
Luxury assets - including art, wine and classic automobiles - are proving increasingly popular in South Africa.
01/20/2014
Coutts, a lender owned by Royal Bank of Scotland, argues that the 13-year-old BRIC term is obsolete.
01/17/2014
2014 is set to be a year in which we will see a synchronised global economic upturn – with all major regions and economies posting positive growth for the first time since 2007.
01/17/2014
SA super-rich rise by 14% over 6 years
The number of South Africans with more than $30 million in net assets climbed 14 percent in the past six years following equity and commodity price gains
01/17/2014
Standard Bank joint CEO Sim Tshabalala has warned South Africa not to be arrogant in its dealings with the rest of Africa.
01/16/2014
The shortfall could average 4.7 percent for the year, BofAML said. That compares with the National Treasury’s forecast of 6.4 percent.
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