Why women need to save more for retirement
Women, on average, live five years longer than men. This means their retirement savings need to last them – on average – five years longer. It’s an important message that doesn’t seem to have hit home yet: women need to save more for retirement than men do. And, given the societal and workplace challenges women...
Changing Africa’s infrastructure funding’s status quo
In a recent conference on funding infrastructure in Africa held in London, the premier destination for conferences about Africa, a fellow speaker lamented the lack of solutions these events yielded. His observation was that the talking points and conclusions at these events always appear to be the same, but that solutions seem few and far...
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Pension provision in Africa remains low
With 72% of sub-Saharan Africans employed in the informal sector, the traditional pension system is being called into question. The traditional pension system works on the premise that members are formally employed, work for 40 years and contribute regularly during this period, resulting in suitable retirement savings. As more people enter the labour...
How to find the right firm for a Chartered Accountant training programme
Landing an opportunity to do your training as a chartered accountant (CA) at a ‘Big Four’ auditing firm used to be the dream for new graduates. But the job market has changed in the last decade and the top jobs of the future look set to be quite different from what they’ve been in the...
African Urbanisation – A Changing Dynamic
On a recent trip to Morocco to attend the 15th Annual Africa Venture Capital Associaiton (AVCA) conference, I had the pleasure of being seated next to and in front of two young families on the aeroplane, both returning home to Morocco after visiting friends and family abroad. One father I chatted to was born and...
A Nairobi Dream
n a recent trip to East Africa I was lucky enough to experience some of the returning optimism and the sense of an investment community gearing up to take part in the next chapter of the region’s blossoming. The substance and longevity of Africa’s growth story outside of the ever turbulent commodity cycle has been...
