Managing 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.

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.

AFRICAN 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).

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. 

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.

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.

CORONATION Merchant Bank has been named the best investment bank in Nigeria at the 2018 global business outlook awards which held recently in London, UK.

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 […]

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

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.