Interview | - Part 4

Kenya—a Two-Fold Approach to Covid-19: Tax Insight

NAIROBI (Capital Markets in Africa) — Following presidential directives to the National Treasury to put in place various tax and fiscal measures to cushion Kenya’s economy from the adverse effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Tax Laws Amendment Act 2020 (TLAA) was assented to by the President of Kenya on April 25, 2020. Kenya has adopted a two-fold approach, not only introducing relief measures but also measures to maintain tax revenue. This Insight will analyze…

Coronavirus and Oil Price Crash

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Coronavirus (COVID-19) creates fear and uncertainty, hitting the global economy and amplifying the volatility of the financial markets. The oil price reaction to COVID-19 was gradually accommodated until March 09, 2020, when, 49 days after the release of the first coronavirus monitoring report by the World Health Organization (WHO), Saudi Arabia floods the market with oil. As a result, international prices drop with more than 20% in one single…

Brighter than expected, but cloudy in patches by Nuveen

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – During the Cold War, a group of atomic scientists began publishing the Doomsday Clock, a representation of how far away the world was from man-made destruction. It was originally set at seven minutes to midnight but has since been readjusted to between 17 and two minutes to, without quite ticking on to Armageddon. More than a decade since the global financial crisis, real estate investors are rather like the…

The Big Picture: Investing in an uncertain world – Invesco’s Q1 2020 Update

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LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Is this a buying opportunity or the half-way stage in a larger slump? The truth is we don’t know, so we have constructed a range of scenarios that see the S&P 500 anywhere between 1400 and 3000 in 12 months. A probability-weighted approach, adjusted for the recent change in cross-asset correlations, leads to a bar-bell approach in our Model Asset Allocation that favors gold and cash among defensive assets…

RisCura launches new Bright Africa investment research

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Investment firm RisCura’s 2019 Bright Africa research was released today and provides a broad analysis of the investment landscape across Africa. The annual Bright Africa research initiative was started by RisCura in 2013 to answer key investor questions about investing on the continent. This year, RisCura expanded the breadth of its analysis, to include inter-Africa connectivity, currency risk, sources of capital on the continent and the inclusion of sovereign bonds, real estate and infrastructure asset…

Africa’s iGaming Market to See Explosive Growth in the Coming Years

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LONDON (Capital Markets in Africa) – The first iGaming business emerged sometime in the mid-1990s when a pair of young entrepreneurs merged their homegrown secure online payment solution with the allure of casino games to create the first online casino. Since then, iGaming has grown into a multi-billion dollar business, shedding many of its early issues with bad actors and flawed regulations, even breaking into markets that are too conservative for them (think of the…

Investments / Markets Investors’ guide to 2020: Markets upbeat, but storm clouds gathering

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Despite various geopolitical and economic challenges at the beginning of 2019, markets managed to deliver very strong returns for the year. And investors will be relieved to see that equity markets look set to start 2020 on a slightly better footing, as many of these uncertainties have been addressed to some extent over 2019. However, the US-China trade war tensions have still not reached a resolution, global recession warning lights remain flashing and geopolitical risks…

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