Advice On Making African Investments
In terms of an investment opportunity, the idea of committing finance to Africa can never really been on top of the agenda for most investors. With so many different options for investment elsewhere, and much safer options at that, why consider making African investments that could quite easily be lost without any potential reward?
Well, for one thing, there are most definitely profits to be made if you choose the right industry in which to invest. Another thing is that you will be essentially helping a more unfortunate continent to build itself up and begin to express itself more on the world stage. With such serious problems such as famine and disease and civil war and genocide, Africa has been struggling to maintain the balance and lead to serious growth for many years. This is despite having a wealth of natural resources at its disposal.
The best chance for the continent of Africa to build itself from being the worlds poorest to being able to compete on the world's stage in generations to come is not in the continued use of foreign aid from a host of individuals and governments, but in foreign investment and private enterprise. As long as this doesn't cross the line and lead to exploitation as has been seen before in such things as the diamond trade. Two or so years ago only about 1% of foreign investment was put into sub-Saharan Africa, yet new figures have suggested that investment here offers greater returns than in any other world region.
with different risks such as political problems and currency fluctuations it is possible that your investment will fall into a black hole. However, in many parts of the continent, countries are seeing a rise in democracy and a stabilisation of their economies, which has in turn led on to the growth of new markets and industries.
Sub-Saharan Africa has actually been seeing its finest economic performance for many years, with the strongest areas of growth being infrastructure, finance tourist and automobiles. Intelligent investments in these industries over the previous few years have provided solid and sometimes very lucrative returns for many investors.
Furthermore, the stock markets of Africa are seeing dramatic improvement, outscoring world averages on a regular basis. Meanwhile the stock exchanges have increases from ten to eighteen over the last ten or so years. South Africa is also seeing positive growth, which is important seeing as it accounts for roughly a quarter of the entire GDP of the continent.
Timely investment therefore can provide big rewards and some big returns. However it is tricky to find funds still that deal with African countries and industry. That said, for a canny investor there are still those available such as the mining trade with sees investment from foreign funds.
However with some digging, it is possible to locate some good exposure to mining funds. One good fund that offers considerable exposure in Africa is called Genesis, who have 10% invested in South Africa and 5% in Egypt. These are safer investment areas, but they also have some smaller levels of investment in some nations with smaller economies, but large prospects. - 23196
Well, for one thing, there are most definitely profits to be made if you choose the right industry in which to invest. Another thing is that you will be essentially helping a more unfortunate continent to build itself up and begin to express itself more on the world stage. With such serious problems such as famine and disease and civil war and genocide, Africa has been struggling to maintain the balance and lead to serious growth for many years. This is despite having a wealth of natural resources at its disposal.
The best chance for the continent of Africa to build itself from being the worlds poorest to being able to compete on the world's stage in generations to come is not in the continued use of foreign aid from a host of individuals and governments, but in foreign investment and private enterprise. As long as this doesn't cross the line and lead to exploitation as has been seen before in such things as the diamond trade. Two or so years ago only about 1% of foreign investment was put into sub-Saharan Africa, yet new figures have suggested that investment here offers greater returns than in any other world region.
with different risks such as political problems and currency fluctuations it is possible that your investment will fall into a black hole. However, in many parts of the continent, countries are seeing a rise in democracy and a stabilisation of their economies, which has in turn led on to the growth of new markets and industries.
Sub-Saharan Africa has actually been seeing its finest economic performance for many years, with the strongest areas of growth being infrastructure, finance tourist and automobiles. Intelligent investments in these industries over the previous few years have provided solid and sometimes very lucrative returns for many investors.
Furthermore, the stock markets of Africa are seeing dramatic improvement, outscoring world averages on a regular basis. Meanwhile the stock exchanges have increases from ten to eighteen over the last ten or so years. South Africa is also seeing positive growth, which is important seeing as it accounts for roughly a quarter of the entire GDP of the continent.
Timely investment therefore can provide big rewards and some big returns. However it is tricky to find funds still that deal with African countries and industry. That said, for a canny investor there are still those available such as the mining trade with sees investment from foreign funds.
However with some digging, it is possible to locate some good exposure to mining funds. One good fund that offers considerable exposure in Africa is called Genesis, who have 10% invested in South Africa and 5% in Egypt. These are safer investment areas, but they also have some smaller levels of investment in some nations with smaller economies, but large prospects. - 23196
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