Redressing the Infrastructure Gap – Still a Bridge Too Far?
The World Bank estimates that the cost of bridging the infrastructure gap in Africa requires an annual expenditure of USD 93bn, or less than 5% of the total GDP of the continent. Looking at China where about 8%-9% of GDP was spent annually on the construction of infrastructure to fuel its impressive growth in the...
African Pension Funds Growing at Fast Pace, Creating Local Pools of Investment Capital
With pension funds in some parts of Africa growing at a remarkable pace, the continent has become its own biggest investor. This is according to RisCura’s 2015 Bright Africa report, an on-going research effort aimed at assisting investors into the continent. Africa has experienced tremendous growth in pension assets over last five years. Assets...
Africa its Own Biggest Investor
African pension fund capital has reached $340bn and is growing rapidly. In addition, increasing adoption of insurance around the continent is causing insurance company investment portfolios to grow, and they are now estimated to be around $270bn. These figures come from the Bright Africa 2015 report, released today by RisCura, which looks at the drivers,...
Sources
Please click the links below for more information. 2015 Annual US PE Breakdown Report, Pitchbook 2015 Index of Economic Freedom, The Heritage Foundation 4Q 2014 Global PE Deal Multiples and Trends Report BMI Research CIA World Factbook Development Aid at a Glance 2. Africa (2014 edition), OECD Gini index by country, Quandl McKinsey 2014. Uncovering...
Africa’s exports by product
Many countries and regions rely heavily on extractive industries for Africa’s exports. These include Nigeria, Southern Africa, Central Africa and the Maghreb region. Countries with more exposure to extractive industries have done well in the past decade as commodity prices have historically been at high levels, but as prices have fallen in recent...
RisCura Red Hot Wine Awards
In conjunction with RisCura, a global financial services provider, Winemag.co.za is pleased to announce the inaugural RisCura Red Hot Wine Awards featuring Bordeaux-style red blends. The Bordeaux region in the southwest of France is famous for its red blends, the best of which have the ability to mature with benefit for many years in bottle....
Private Equity Geographic Focus
The dip in transaction activity in 2015 is not surprising, considering the macroeconomic uncertainty experienced in many key markets during the year. The unknown impact of declining oil revenues, currency exchange controls, elections and the like, has caused a ‘wait-and-see’ lull in activity. This has been seen across all regions, with total...
Africa’s energy infrastructure
This is 2.5 times more than the region in second position (Maghreb region at 308MW). As expected, Maghreb, Egypt and Southern Africa (ex-SA) round off the top four. South Africa compares well with the MIT nations as its installed energy capacity is greater than all the three nations. All other African nations excluding North Africa...
Africa’s rail infrastructure
South Africa has 20 000 km of installed rail infrastructure and, given its relatively small size compared to other regional groupings, this translates to a high rail per land area. In absolute terms, the Maghreb region has 8 933 km of installed rail, however, if the underproductive land area were excluded from its total land...
Africa’s road infrastructure
To analyse the investment in road infrastructure in various regions, the total kilometres of both paved and unpaved roads were aggregated. 67% of the road infrastructure in the Maghreb region is paved. Within the region, the top performers are Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco with over 70% of total kilometres of road being paved. Egypt has...
