In an environment of increased volatility and uncertainty, maintaining a sufficient buffer of liquid assets may at times detract from the ability to allocate assets with the highest potential returns but potentially lower liquidity. This trade-off can sometimes be minimized by employing derivative instruments. Even though obtaining funding via...
AfCFTA’s Secretary General, Wamkele Mene, believes that by 2035, intra-Africa trade would double and in the process lift 100 million Africans out of poverty. Currently, intra-Africa trade accounts for 15% the continent’s total trade which is rather on the low side compared to other regions like Europe (69%), Asia...
President’s 21st COVID-19 address to the nation on Sunday noted that recent genomic sequencing by scientists has established that some passengers arriving into the country tested positive for the new variant of COVID-19, and even though they have been identified and isolated, the prospect is frightening.
Frightening because it is...
The practice of trading a company shares and bonds on an organized platform has been in existence for a while now. As early as in 1611, the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, considered to be the oldest modern securities exchange, was established by the Dutch East India Company.
In Florence, Genoa and...
The last decade was an important experiment in Africa tech ventures moving out of the “labs” and becoming real businesses that saw investors backing them with so much capital that from 2014 to 2019, the total number of VC deals doubled every year until the advent of COVID-19, which...
It sure is good to be back! How were your Christmas holidays? Anything unusually exciting happened? My Christmas was fun and relatively quiet, spending time with family and close friends.
The highlight of my Christmas was attending a children’s dance recital organised by Vivie’s Dance Factory in East Legon-Accra. Held...
My favourite definition of ‘entrepreneurship’ is “the creation or extraction of value”. Simple, right?
It means wherever you are, if you are creating extra value for yourself or bringing out more worth in whatever you do, then you’re entrepreneuring! …if that’s a word. It means an entrepreneur need not only...