THE Association of Investment Advisers and Portfolio Managers, IAMP, have called on the regulatory agencies in the capital market to be more proactive in investigating reported cases of infraction among market operators in order to safeguard investors’ interest.

I think the government still got to continue carrying on with promotional activities. But what we also got to recognize that what any government does when it is doing promotional activities is to simply talk about the investment environment. So, in the end, what all of us must do, including my organisation is that we have to be helping businesses find each other and actually talk about reality of doing businesses.

Less than 14 of the nation’s 34 Free Trade Zones (FTZs) are operating, actively, the Managing Director (MD) of the Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA), Rt. Hon. Emmanuel Jime, disclosed at the weekend.

INVESTORS appear to have set off speculated positioning on the stock of  Seven-Up Bottling Company Plc (7UP), against the acquisition offer price. Last weekend the stock price moved up almost 5 percent on 141,000 trade volume on a single day trade to close at N101.97, leaving just 11.05 percent premium for any new buyer who may be holding the shares to sell off under the acquisition scheme.

Loan recovery is a very major challenge in the Microfinance Bank, MfB, sub-sector. It is not just microfinance, but in the entire banking industry. The stress and distress in the economy have made so many things to be abnormal and thereby made people to be unable to pay back loan.