Webinar: Practical implications & limitations of investing in Africa View this email in your browser The practical implications and limitations of investing in Africa A Bright Africa webinar, by RisCura 29 October 2015, 10am ET Dear Courtney Please join us for RisCura’s inaugural Bright Africa webcast. This session, created with global institutional investors in mind, will cover: The development and investability of Africa’s listed markets Supply and demand of investment opportunities in African private equity Risk considerations when…
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Africa highlighted as a market with high potential for pharma industry …
Cape Town, South Africa, Capital Markets in Africa — Imagine the future’: DHL’s Annual Regional Life Sciences & Healthcare conference focused on life sciences & healthcare supply chains and enhancing the life sciences and healthcare sector —Africa highlighted as a market with high potential for life sciences & healthcare companies —As growth in developed markets stagnates, companies in the life sciences and healthcare market are increasingly looking for growth in Africa. This is according to…
Read MoreRwanda’s 10-year Capital Market Master Plan in the offing
Kigali, Rwanda, Capital Markets in Africa — The Capital Market Authority of Rwanda hosts a strategic planning roundtable designed to initiate the process of developing a ten-year capital market development master plan (CMMP). The three-day off-site meeting brought together international and regional experts as well as high-level Rwandan officials from the public and private sectors. Among the delegates were renowned capital market experts from 14 countries across the globe who were in the roundtable they included:…
Read MoreMorocco Equity Markets | 22 Oct 2015: Morocco Casablanca stock exchange deplete by US$192 million, indices down
Casablanca, Morocco, Capital Markets in Africa —The bear continued to tormenting the Casablanca Stock Exchange equity at the end of Thursday’s trading session. The Moroccan benchmark stock index (measured as MASI Index) sagged by 0.46 percent to end at 8,944.08 points (with a year-to-date performance to -7.03 percent) with total market capitalization at MAD 451.124 billion (a decrease of MAD 1.8 billion or US$192 million relatively to the previous market capitalization of MAD 452.963 billion). The…
Read MoreMauritius Equity Markets | 22 Oct 2015: Bull reappear, SEMDEX index 0.19% higher Air Mauritius leads the gainers
PORT LOUIS, Mauritius, Capital Markets in Africa — The Stock Exchange of Mauritius equity market capitalization closed at MUR 208.405 billion after adding MUR 404 million (about US$11 million) compared to previous market capitalization of MUR 208.004 billion. In the same positive sentiment, the Mauritius All Share Index (SEMDEX index) rose by 0.19 percent or 3.59 points to close at 1,871.43 and SEM10 index edged up by 0.24 percent or 0.85 points to close at 358.29…
Read MoreAfDB Board approves €70 million for construction of Senegal’s Digital Technology Park
Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire , Capital Markets in Africa — In its bid to contribute to promoting Senegal as an information and communications technology (ICT) centre of excellence and a destination for the establishment of call centers, e-commerce, software development, wireless Internet facilities and other ICT market segments, the African Development Bank (AfDB) will inject €70.61 million in the sector. The Board of Directors approved the Senegal Digital Technology Park project on Wednesday, October 21, 2015,…
Read MoreSouth Africa Equity Markets | 21 Oct 2015: South Africa equity in Green despite gold miner and resources indices lower ….
Johannesburg, South Africa Capital Markets in Africa —Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) All Share (the broadest measure of the equity market performance) rose by 0.22 percent or 117.81 points to settle at 52,997.97 points and the benchmark JSE Top 40 index ended 184.25 points or 0.39 percent higher to end at 47,594,59 points. From the sector indices, financial sector index grew by 0.09 percent or 39.13 points at 44,641.84 points. Industrial sector index and industrial 25 index rose by 0.41 percent to…
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