Bora Capital Advisors has launched two collective investment schemes, the Bora Fixed Income Unit Trust and Bora Balance Unit Trust, at an event in Accra. The schemes are targetted at Ghana’s retail and institutional markets to service a growing client demand and also meet a regulatory directive from the Securities...
Home to about 1.4 billion people, approximately a quarter of Africa’s population is impoverished – a staggering 460 million people in the region are living below the extreme poverty line of US$1.90 a day in 2022, an egregious situation that has characterised Africa as poverty-stricken. But the truth is that Africa is not poor – the...
Climate change is intensifying food insecurity across sub-Saharan Africa, where Russia’s war in Ukraine and the pandemic are also adding to food shortages and high prices. Climate events - which destroy crops and disrupt food transport - are disproportionately common in the region. One-third of the world’s droughts occur in sub-Saharan...
To Ms. Lola, who owns and manages a provision store at Awoshie, a suburb of Accra, the days of using charcoal to cook for the family were long gone. It has been years, she says, and so it wasn’t surprising that she had to search her storeroom for hours...
one local, two Chinese firms  in the net The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has conducted a swoop on three companies for non-compliance and infractions against VAT regulations, with two of the companies being Chinese firms and the other a local one.    The two Chinese entities are Zengsi Investment Company...
Executive Director in charge of retail and wealth management at Bora Capital Advisors, William Mensah, says lowering the cost of running Collective Investment Schemes in the country by reducing management and administrative fees will enable the industry’s growth and have a wider effect on the economy. Collective Investment Schemes (CIS)...
Political parties rely heavily on financial assistance to sustain their activities. This has led to a situation where financiers of a party can unduly influence the outcome of elections and the policies of political parties. The question we ponder over is whether the state should sponsor political parties or whether...
as it eyes five shared office spaces by end-2023 The nation’s enduring socio-political stability, coupled with the rapidly-expanding pool of local talent, guarantees that it will be a key destination for a wide variety of investments on the continent. This is according to the founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO)...
The Entrepreneurs Foundation of Ghana (EFG) will on Friday September 23 host the ninth edition of its annual Made-in-Ghana Awards Gala Dinner 2022 to honour and unveil a selection of iconic locally-made products and services across sectors at the Movenpick Ambassador Hotel in Accra. This year’s event, themed ‘Ghana Beyond Imports’,...
In an immature society culture is an import; for a mature one it is a native manufacture which eventually becomes an export. - Northrop Frye. How well do you know your Culture? Did you know there is a correlative relationship between Culture and Tourism? How best can you place the...