South Africa is fast approaching a watershed moment as Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan prepares for...

Economics is a dismal science because of the difficulty in getting the timing of monetary and fiscal...

South Africa, at 40%, has one of the highest marginal tax rates of all middle-income countries

An index must be accurate and effective. The NSE 20 Share index is by all means biased to stocks who...

Our markets are excluded from the major global trends mainly because of their size and poor corporat...

As the market slowly readjusts from the Uchumi shutdown, we are bound to see more and more people tu...

The CMA takes the blame for our underdeveloped equity market. Whether they adopt an electronic trad...

Why do fund managers put so much credit on the offshore markets but leave out emerging markets in...

Nobody has ever predicted the ‘when’ and ‘how’ of bursts. Just before the burst, the market will alw...

As the Presidential Cycle nears, investors are worried about the possibility of a crash, price adjus...

Although the west has shunned African markets for a long time, Africa’s stock markets appear set for...

Brokers’ malpractices are an ugly fact of investment in stocks, but they are part of the risks invol...

The pace at which investment clubs have sprang up shows the reversing trend in the equity market. W...

Politics or who's in charge is not a big deal in investment decisions. Governments are more victims...

If a company starts booking a lump-sum payment as current sales even when services will be provided...

Why would one invest in commodities and not the conventional stocks or bonds as always done in the p...

Some behaviors are thought to be random but not to the very experienced hawk eye. This is where the...

Events in Kenya are perhaps a timely reminder that while attractive returns can be generated across...

Regardless of who benefits more from the strength of the shilling, the market forces should determin...

Apart from basic goods trickling back, businesses are no longer subjected to NIPC vigilantes crusadi...

SAPs-induced impoverishment among the lower social classes can last beyond the life span of the pro...

The objective of rural microfinance is to realize an inclusive financial system so that the economic...

Although a multiplicity of challenges face group lending, it is important to develop services that a...

We can stabilize the Kenyan market by cutting taxes, addressing justice and insecurity, toning down...

The post-election violence in Kenya brings with it operational and financial risks and challenges hi...

It is important that our formal education systems take a dynamic approach to include current issues...

Kenya’s Nairobi Stocks Exchange (NSE) has witnessed a surge of rogue stockbrokers. The most recent e...

While banking has been demystified and incorporated in the common man’s mindset, thanks to microfina...

In business things are not left to chance. Since the customer is complicated, delicate and has sever...

African government should support the growth of the microfinance industry so as to improve the lives...