The Role of Cryptocurrencies in Investor Portfolios

The Role of Cryptocurrencies in Investor Portfolios

LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Cryptocurrencies have attracted widespread interest among private investors and even some hedge funds as a vehicle for speculation. However, institutional investors such as endowment funds, pension funds, and sovereign wealth funds have allocated only small amounts to cryptocurrencies. Their reluctance to invest meaningfully in cryptocurrencies can be traced to a variety of concerns. Cryptocurrencies have displayed significant volatility, they are not backed by a sovereign entity, and their value…

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Transition Pathway Initiative: State of Transition Summit 2021

Transition Pathway Initiative: State of Transition Summit 2021

This is the transition decade, and companies are starting to detail their transition plans whilst investors are committing to net-zero targets. Ahead of the major UN climate conference, COP26 Summit to be held in Glasgow, please join the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) for the fourth ‘Annual State of the Transition Summit’ to hear what progress has or has not been made. During this webinar we will bring leading global investors together for an honest dialogue…

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EU Looks to Johnson to Stop No-Deal Brexit With Talks at Impasse

EU Looks to Johnson to Stop No-Deal Brexit With Talks at Impasse

LONDON (Capital Markets in Africa) — The European Union will try to convince Boris Johnson to forge a compromise later this month in an attempt to stop the U.K. from breaking away from the bloc without a trade deal. With the negotiations deadlocked, and the latest talks set to end Friday without a breakthrough, the EU is pinning its hopes on a dramatic intervention by the British prime minister when he speaks to European Commission…

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New Ebola Outbreak in Congo, Already Hit by Measles and Coronavirus

New Ebola Outbreak in Congo, Already Hit by Measles and Coronavirus

CONGO (Capital Markets in Africa) — Five people have died in Mbandaka, a western city more than 750 miles away from another Ebola outbreak in the country. It is unclear how the disease emerged in the city during the lockdown. DAKAR, Senegal — A fresh outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus has flared up in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country that was already contending with the world’s largest measles epidemic, as well as…

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How to handle market declines By Capital Group

How to handle market declines By Capital Group

LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – You wouldn’t be human if you didn’t fear loss. Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman demonstrated this with his loss aversion theory, showing that people feel the pain of losing money more than they enjoy gains. The natural instinct is to flee the market when it starts to plummet, just as greed prompts people to jump back in when stocks are skyrocketing. Both can have negative impacts. But smart investing…

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Coronavirus and Oil Price Crash

Coronavirus and Oil Price Crash

LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Coronavirus (COVID-19) creates fear and uncertainty, hitting the global economy and amplifying the volatility of the financial markets. The oil price reaction to COVID-19 was gradually accommodated until March 09, 2020, when, 49 days after the release of the first coronavirus monitoring report by the World Health Organization (WHO), Saudi Arabia floods the market with oil. As a result, international prices drop with more than 20% in one single…

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Brighter than expected, but cloudy in patches by Nuveen

Brighter than expected, but cloudy in patches by Nuveen

LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – During the Cold War, a group of atomic scientists began publishing the Doomsday Clock, a representation of how far away the world was from man-made destruction. It was originally set at seven minutes to midnight but has since been readjusted to between 17 and two minutes to, without quite ticking on to Armageddon. More than a decade since the global financial crisis, real estate investors are rather like the…

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