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Head, Special Risks, of Continental Reinsurance Plc, Mr. Bashir Akinsiki, in this interview speaks on challenges confronting local insurers from taking up oil and gas risks. Excerpts:
Read More SOME insurance companies will soon lose their hold on government businesses as the federal government is putting modalities in place for a policy mandating Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, to award their insurance contracts to companies with high risk management models.
Read More Michael Larbie is the Chief Executive Officer of Rand Merchant Bank Nigeria, a subsidiary of the South Africa based FirstRand Group. In this interview Labie speaks on the bank’s effort to distinguish itself in the intensely competitive Nigerian banking industry. He also spoke on the forthcoming general election and its impact on the economy.
Read More EQUITIES market will experience another spate of sell-off this week despite attractive valuations, financial analysts have said.
Read More STANBIC IBTC Bank Plc has commissioned an Africa-China Banking Centre, ACBC, to offer Nigerian and Chinese clients a business-to-business networking and personal advisory service and also help them to access and unlock the many opportunities in Nigeria-China trade.
Read MoreManaging Director and Chief Executive Officer of STL Trustees Ltd, Funmi Ekundayo, in this interview talks on the company’s journey so far and a wide range of industry issues among others. Excerpts.
Read More MICRO Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) operators have said that government support at all levels is key to building capacity and enhancing the growth of entrepreneurs in the country.
Read MoreAFRICAN Reinsurance Corporation said that in spite of the huge losses and catastrophe that hit the insurance sector in recent times, it recorded 11.65 percent increase (year-on-year) in its premium income for the nine months financial period ended September of 2018 (9M’18).
Read More WITH dollar inflow into the Investors and Exporters window, I&E, falling by 42 percent in October, and the external reserves maintaining its downward trend, losing another $2.639 billion since the last meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee, MPC, of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, in September, economic analysts have projected that the committee, at the end of its meeting this week, will maintain its policy rates in deference to the need to sustain dollar inflow from foreign portfolio investors in the nation’s debt market with a view to forestall the declining trend in the reserves and demand pressure in the nation’s foreign exchange market.
Read More SHARES of Lafarge Africa Plc fell by 28.6 percent in three weeks as equity investors continue to sell-off the shares following the release of a disappointing quarter three and nine month earning reports by the company.
Read More THE Head of Research, Coronation Merchant Bank, Mr. Guy Czatoryski, has said that there is no correlation between the size of insurance companies balance sheet and return on equity, as shareholders, most times, get low return on their investment irrespective of the profit made.
Read MoreCORONATION Merchant Bank has been named the best investment bank in Nigeria at the 2018 global business outlook awards which held recently in London, UK.
Read More Mrs Tonyi Sanni, CEO, Emerging Africa Capital Group, who is also the president, Corporate and Individual Investment Advisers, spoke to Financial Vanguard on activities of the Collective Investment Scheme, CIS, and how to make it more viable and attractive to investors. Excerpts: By Nkiruka Nnorom AVAILABLE data has shown that investors have continued to demonstrate
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THIRD Observers Nigeria Limited has joined in the efforts by the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, to drive the adoption of e-dividend initiative with publication of a book, ‘Dividend
Read More MANAGING Director, Flobal Trust Limited and author of Multiple Bold Steps, Mr Abayomi Adeyeri, has advised Nigerian investors to be entrepreneurial and seek ways to create multiple streams of income in order to create sustainable wealth and attain good living standards.
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