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INTO AFRICA August Edition: INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE IN AFRICA

LAGOS, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa: Welcome to the August edition of INTO AFRICA, a publication with fresh insight into Africa’s emerging capital markets. The edition focuses on Infrastructure Financing in Africa. Please download by clicking INTO AFRICA PUBLICATION: AUGUST EDITION. Africa has experienced rapid and exponential economic growth in the last decade and a half. This growth has occurred despite the continent’s huge infrastructure deficit, one of the reasons why economists and policy commentators question Africa’s economic growth…

INTO AFRICA July Edition: PRIVATE EQUITY:- AFRICA’S TRUMP CARD!

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LAGOS, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa: Welcome to the July edition of INTO AFRICA, a publication with fresh insight into Africa’s emerging capital markets. Please download by clicking INTO AFRICA PUBLICATION: JULY EDITION. African countries experienced an exponential growth trajectory over the past ten years and will continue to demonstrate strong fundamentals that signal continued growth in the medium-term and long-term. Despite recent short-term volatility over the growing austerity, slow growth in Europe and Britain (the Brexit…

INTO AFRICA June Edition: Africa’s Bonds :- Coming of Age

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LAGOS, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa: Welcome to the June edition of INTO AFRICA with focus on Fixed Income in Africa and titled Africa’s Bonds: Coming of Age Africa’s fixed income markets have benefitted from tremendous growth dynamics during the past decade, as most of Africa’s sovereign borrowers have managed to strengthen their public finances to levels above the global average. In addition, the asset class is now opening to international investors and is well…

INTO AFRICA May Edition: Unveiling Opportunities in African Equities

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LAGOS, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa — The start of 2016 broke away from the well-known ‘January effect’ – a term coined to describe the seasonal irregularity witnessed in the financial markets over the years: the propensity of stock prices to increase during the first month of the year. In contrast, global equity markets had to navigate an ugly storm, as sell-offs ensued, driven by sentiment rather than fundamentals. Rekindled concerns over global growth and…

INTO AFRICA April Edition: Africa’s Unshaken Fundamentals

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LAGOS, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa — Over the past few years, discussion about Africa’s development, prosperity, growth and potential was becoming more optimistic, so Africa seems to have conquered the myth of negative perception. The gained optimism has led to many buzzwords such as Africa rising; Africa the last frontier, Lion on the move etc. As a result, Africa is not hard to sell to investors and many investment pitches highlight the common reason…

INTO AFRICA: African Economic Outlook in 2016

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LAGOS, Nigeria, Capital Markets in Africa — In 2015, Africa experienced its slowest economic growth rate since the 1998 global financial crisis. The Sub-Saharan Africa real GDP growth fell from 5.0 percent in 2014 to 3.75 percent in 2015 (IMF’s estimates). The downside risks in 2015 (low commodity prices, a slowing in China’s growth and uncertainty in the level of USA’s real growth rate) are expected to spill-over to 2016 but with reduced impact. As…

Managing African Equity Portfolios in a Challenging Environment

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The Annus Horibilis In a year that felt like an annus horribilis for global investing and where most asset classes from commodities to bonds and equities declined, African equity markets were not spared the rout in 2015. Market returns in US dollars for 2015 Source: Bloomberg The MSCI Emerging and Frontier Markets Index for Africa excluding South Africa fell 22.1% in 2015, although the two largest and most liquid markets fared worse, with Nigeria and Egypt…

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