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Predictably: a highly-sought-after commodity for investors

24 March 2014

Many factors in recent years have culminated in a shift from active to passive investment management, most notably the inability of active managers to generate significant and consistent alpha over the longer term (whilst continuing to charge high fees).

Risk needed for returns, but what risk to focus on?

19 March 2014

All investments are risky to a certain extent with variability or volatility in returns. For wealth building, investors need to accept a certain amount of risk, but how does one begin to understand the concept of risk?

Frontier Markets Find Footing

19 March 2014

Frontier markets remain in focus for the Templeton Emerging Markets Group in 2014, and my team and I have spent the early part of the year exploring potential investment opportunities in a number of them. I generally spend about a third of my time in these markets, with Dubai, Eastern Europe and South Africa serving as hubs for access. While the emerging markets we visit today were once considered niches or “exotic” investments when I first started investing in them in the late 1980s, many investors are now familiar with them. Many frontier markets are yet to be fully discovered by the investment community, and we believe they represent the next tier of investment opportunities within the overall emerging-markets universe. Frontier markets are located around the globe, in Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Central and South America, and Africa. We think there is good potential for frontier economies to forge ahead in their development this year and beyond.

Ethiopia - a rising star with a ripe investment climate that is gaining foreign investors’ attention

18 March 2014

Things are rapidly changing in Ethiopia. This country, situated in the north-eastern part of Africa, is considered one of the most politically and socially stable countries in Africa. Ethiopia is making headways, and becoming a great place to do business. The Ethiopian economy is mainly based on agriculture, which in 2010/11 accounted for about 50% of the gross domestic product (GDP), 90% of foreign currency earnings and 85% of employment. This was highlighted at the Nedbank-NEPAD Business Forum entitled; ‘Ethiopian Investment Forum’, where emphasis was placed on the economic boom the country was experiencing as well as the investment opportunities that existed for the private sector.

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