Editorial | - Part 12

INTO AFRICA May Edition: Unveiling Opportunities in African Equities

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…

Pessimism creates the best optimism in the long run — Mark Mobius, Executive Chairman, Templeton Emerging Markets Group

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Emerging market guru, Dr. Mark Mobius, Executive Chairman, Templeton Emerging Markets Group, Franklin Templeton Investments, has been investing in global emerging markets for more than 40 years. He joined Templeton in 1987 and currently directs the Templeton research team, which is based in 18 global emerging markets offices, and manages emerging markets portfolios including Africa. Mark Mobius shares his views on the prospects and challenges in 2016 with Capital Markets in Africa. Retrospectively, in your…

African exchanges need a platform for cooperation and the development of their capital markets — Karim Hajji, CEO, Casablanca Stock Exchange

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Karim Hajji, Chief Executive of the Casablanca Stock Exchange (CSE) gives an exclusive interview to Capital Markets in Africa and elaborates on aspects of Moroccan capital markets development and investment opportunities. He also spoke about the need to make African exchanges more liquid and advocated for African exchanges to strengthen their ties in order to create a platform for successful cooperation and to identify avenues for the development of their capital markets. The Casablanca Stock Exchange is one of…

African capital markets play an important role in fostering African economic growth — Sunil Benimadhu, CEO, Stock Exchange of Mauritius

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Sunil Benimadhu, Chief Executive of the Stock Exchange of Mauritius (SEM) gives an exclusive interview to Capital Markets in Africa and elaborates on aspects of capital markets development in Africa. Sunil has played an instrumental role in uplifting the operational, technical and regulatory infrastructure of the SEM and contributed to its emergence as one of the leading Exchanges in Africa. He is a regular speaker on emerging markets and on African markets in international stock exchange conferences To…

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