Are You an Investment Consultant? UK Antitrust Watchdog Is Coming After You? The Financial Times (London) reports that the the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has handed a probe into the investment consultancy industry, whose biggest companies collectively oversee £1.6 trillion of assets, to its fellow regulator, the Competition Market Authority (CMA). This…
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Africa Is Still Running Elitist Universities and Widening Inequality Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have failed to move their tertiary education systems from highly elitist to mass-based when compared with other regions in the world, according to a new World Bank study. According to the report Sharing Higher Education’s Promise Beyond the Few in Sub-Saharan Africa,…
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ANALYSIS: Crown Prince marks new era of social justice in Saudi Arabia Far too many journalists and media outlets have fallen prey to the sensationalist “game of thrones” narrative, reporting the recent arrests in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as a power grab intended to secure the throne for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman…
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Emaar Net Profit Up by 20 Percent in Nine Months to $1.184 Billion Emaar Properties PJSC (EMAAR:UH) recorded a net profit of $1.184 billion (Dh 4.347 billion) during the first nine months (January to September) 2017, an increase of 20 percent over the net profit of $ 986 million (Dh3.620 billion) during the same…
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Change in Saudi Arabia: It’s happening and at an amazing pace Abdulrahman al-Rashed Al-Arabia Thursday, 9 November 2017 More than two and a half years ago, I was among the listeners in the ministerial meetings’ room. It was the first time I heard the ideas of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman who clearly…
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‘Only Two Million Nigerians Have Insurance Policies’ NOVEMBER 8TH, 2017 Of Nigeria’s estimated two hundred million populations, and of ninety million adults, only two million people have one form of insurance cover or the other. This accounts for why insurance penetration ratio is still less than 0.5 percent and contribution to GDP still less than…
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On Our Dying Villages JANUARY 21ST, 2009 Ebere Onwudiwe and Okey C. Iheduru You can quote us on this: you can take a Nigerian out of the village, but you can never take the village out of him. The later condition is a serious matter. Most Nigerian urban dwellers never really leave their villages…
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Muhammed bin Salman and the Push to Establish a New Saudi Political Order When Prince Mutaib bin Abdullah, the former head of the powerful Saudi National Guard, woke up last Saturday in his palace, he probably had no idea that by the end of the day he would be arrested and stripped of…
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The World’s Fastest Growing Brands in 2017, by Value JEFF DESJARDINS November 10, 2017 at 1:10 pm The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. In a modern business era of near-constant disruption, which brands are winning the hearts of consumers the fastest? Today’s charts look at the brands that are…
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Bigger Share of Oil Revenue Goes to Kenya’s Local Communities In a season of chaos and conflict arising from contentious elections, the Government of Kenya has decided to avert the kind of “resource control” politics that has birthed insurgencies and secessionist movements in other African countries, such as Nigeria and Angola. Since oil was…
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