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| Investing in Africa |
Africa presents a largely under-explored investment area. African economies and capital markets are still over-looked and under-researched by many, hence offering excellent long-term returns for the far-sighted investor.
Over the past couple of years, African markets have consistently provided some of the world's strongest returns, despite the areas perception of being historically too risky.
Africa arguably is the "Last Frontier" both in terms of assets and geography in Emerging Market portfolios. Strong underlying growth and the fact that East West African markets and stocks in particular are un-correlated to Western markets and the already emerged of emerging markets, means that investors benefit from diversification and low correlation risk.
Today many parts of Africa have undergone considerable transformation and development, and now offer far-sighted investors to get exposure to the last frontier markets and an expanding universe of high quality and attractively valued African companies.
Over time, Africa will capture a larger share of the global savings pool. While there is risk in investing in Africa, some or even most of these risks are over-stated due to lack of familiarity with the reality of today's Africa. The Economist Newspaper recently ran "Africa Rising" on its cover magazine with a briefing on Africa's hopeful economies. After decades of slow growth, Africa has a real chance to follow in the footsteps of Asia.
So far the returns of investing in Africa have far out-weighted the risks and The African Opportunity Fund offers great diversification for any global emerging markets portfolio.
Should you have any questions, comments or suggestions about investing in Africa in general or in particular The African Opportunity Fund, please e-mail us at:
info@africanassetmanagement.com |
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