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Nigeria: An African Giant

14 May 2014 | General

I’ve been a frontier market fan for some time now, especially when it comes to Africa, and particularly when it comes to investing in Nigeria. On May 7-9, Abuja, Nigeria, had the honour of hosting the World Economic Forum on Africa, which South Africa has hosted for the past 17 of 23 years. The event offered an opportunity for Nigeria to showcase its economic potential and build some investor confidence. Unfortunately, the shocking kidnapping of school girls by the Boko Haram, probably designed to embarrass the government at the time of the Forum, highlighted that Nigeria’s path to development will not be an easy one. My thoughts and well-wishes are with the families of the girls for their safe return.

Kenya bouncing back, Imara tells investors

13 May 2014 | General

After three months of net outflows of foreign funds, Kenya’s stock exchange is bouncing back.

Prescient awarded additional $100 million quota for investment in China

13 May 2014 | General

Prescient Investment Management has been awarded an additional quota of $100 million to invest in China.

Expect the Unexpected

12 May 2014 | General

The first few months of 2014 have proved to be fairly challenging for most investors. Entering the year, there was an almost universally held set of consensus views: equities would perform well, bonds would suffer as yields rose and the US dollar would strengthen (against the yen and euro in particular) as the Federal Reserve pared back Quantitative Easing (QE). Most economists were optimistic about US prospects, expecting accelerating growth.

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Do you think short-term insurance broking will survive the AI plus humanoid robotics age?

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Human first always Not a chance Possibly maybe Yes, but reimagined

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