Managers of Wealth Africa

Manager of the Year Ninety One says global investment experience counts

The Offshore Manager of the Year award went to Melville Douglas, the offshore investment arm of the Standard Bank group.

Banque Misr invests $80.5m in Afreximbank’s capital increase

This equity investment is a positive and strategic response to the ongoing general capital increase by Afreximbank. Banque Misr has thereby increased its stake in Afreximbank from 3.1% to 5.8%.

‘FBN Holdings Committed to Supporting Human Devt Initiatives’

He hinted that for the past six years going to eight years, they have consistently supported Rotary Club in different intervention.

FG Must Unlock Dead Assets, Others to Shaping Economy in 2022

“There are some forces opposing the business environment progress."

Equity, KCB enter list of most valuable global bank brands

The lenders were measured on perceptions among different stakeholder groups, where customers are the most important, and business or financial performance.

SA's listed property: Investors need to be more realistic about returns

Izak Petersen, CEO of Dipula Income Fund, said doomsday predictions about the retail apocalypse and nervousness around the possibility of further declines in property valuations are receding.

Government of Togo works on new public investment plan

The government also wants to improve coordination between ministries and expand the PIP to local authorities, public enterprises, and public-private partnerships.

Impact Investing Ghana receives RISA funding to support Research and Industry

Strengthening the connections between research and industry is essential for innovation, commercialisation, and dissemination of research results.

Why Moody's is buying Africa's largest ratings agency

Moody's wants to increase its relevance in the domestic capital market in the continent.

Kenya plans more big projects amid surging cost fears

Economists under the plan are also calling for the continued modernisation of sea and inland ports and the expansion of rehabilitation of railway infrastructure to facilitate seamless connectivity.

Middle Eastern countries look to China for infrastructure funding, new technology

Countries in the Middle East, especially Iraq, are a new focus of investment under China’s Belt and Road Initiative, a report out of Fudan University said today.

Middle-East smart mobility investments a lesson for Africa

A report from the International Data Corporation (IDC) estimated that the region has invested about $2.3 billion in smart city technologies by the end of 2021.

President Kenyatta Urges World Bank Group to Support the Private Sector

Mr. Diop who led a high-level delegation briefed the President on the involvement of IFC in different economic sectors under the Big 4 Agenda.

Liberia: African Development Bank extends $10 Million Grant to Enhance Climate Information Systems

The project will also receive $431,969 from the Bank’s ClimDev Africa Special Fund and $1 million from the government of Liberia.

African Billionaire Eyes Caribbean Investment

Elumelu indicated that he would meet with politicians on his visit to Jamaica later this year, at an unspecified date, in furtherance of his interest.

Here’s how much money South Africans are saving for retirement

South African households do not save sufficiently for retirement nor their short-to-medium-term needs, the National Treasury said in a December analysis.

Tech Founders to raise $200mln amid hunt for potential African unicorns

The fund has a list of around 400 possibilities concentrated in South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria

Access Bank ‘W’ Initiative tasks women entrepreneurs on insurance

The Team lead of Bancassurance, Oluwabunmi Ayodele, said that the bank had various product offerings available on bancassurance and urged women to subscribe to them.

IMF cuts South Africa growth forecasts

The twin pressures of tighter Covid-19 lockdown restrictions and a spate of civil disorder in July led to the economy contracting in the third quarter of 2021

Glass half full again as SA's wine industry slowly rises from Covid-19 ashes

Through a necessity to revive, recover and rebuild, wine businesses are undergoing a mind shift in the way they do business

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