05/19/2014
The future may be bitter for chocolate lovers unless cocoa producers step up their output dramatically to satisfy an expected surge in demand from emerging market countries, an industry executive warns.
05/19/2014
Cutifani: 31 of 69 assets in the group contribute only 2% of EBIT
05/16/2014
Stokvels are traditional collective savings schemes, which typically involve members making a regular contribution to a pool
05/14/2014
The Commission of the African Union has urged member countries to focus more effort on research into water and energy sciences development to enhance the state of the art service delivery to Africans.
05/13/2014
Bulawayo – Mauritius-based AfrAsia Bank Limited says it will soon invest in other Southern African Development Community countries, as its confidence in regional economies increases.
05/13/2014
Early investors may catch better returns. Those who backed China’s nascent economic boom in the Nineties achieved an incredible total return of 940pc in that decade, theoretically turning £10,000 into nearly £104,000.
05/13/2014
The Nairobi Securities Exchange will sell up to a 38 percent stake in an initial public offering by the end of next month to raise funds for new products and enhance transparency
05/12/2014
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang proposed that China and Africa upgrade their cooperation during his eight-day trip to Africa
05/12/2014
The conference, which is the third in the series, will bring to a roundtable, the foreign investors, with regulators from Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission
05/12/2014
NG IM announced that the closure of the fund coincides with the decision to end all MENA equity investment activities
05/09/2014
Extensive sector meetings and best practice presentations by the Globalscope members evidenced the close relationships established in the network for the continuing benefit of its clients.
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.