We have just issued our mid-month Frontier Market Outlook issue. As always, we aim to provide you with our ‘on the ground’ insights and perspectives on these new investment destinations. We have made a few further enhancements to the publication and we hope it will help you become more familiar with these rapidly developing frontier markets. [...]

Senegal’s election campaign started on February 5 with the actual vote scheduled for February 26. Last month the constitutional court ruled that President Abdoulaye Wade had the right to run for a third term. This prompted street protests, partly because the constitution was revised by Wade himself in 2001 to impose a two-term maximum. Wade [...]

If there is one thing that really shines through from the month of January, it certainly is Egypt’s spectacular market comeback with the EGX shooting up by an impressive 28.3% over the period. It now seems that the change is moving in the right direction and this is bringing investors back to the region. Needless [...]

Hesham and Mohamed – our colleagues in Cairo – are in a very good mood these days! This comes as no surprise because the Egypt Stock Exchange has been soaring upwards like a rocket ship, session after session. The exchange has circuit breakers that get triggered when the market moves by more than 5% in [...]

Download Silk Invest’s 2012 Annual Outlook here First of all best wishes for the New Year and we hope that 2012 will bring you a lot of success and health. I would like to take this opportunity to share with you, our investment outlook for the coming 12 months. Our central investment theme for this [...]

The Silk Invest team wishes you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year! Looking back, we could say is that 2011 was either disastrous or remarkable.  At Silk Invest, we prefer to conclude it was the latter. At times it may have felt a bit like an earthquake, but that is the least that can [...]

Silk Invest recently conducted an investor survey. The objective of this effort was to assess investors’ views on frontier markets and to better quantify their investment strategy in these markets. The survey had a specific focus on the African markets. The main conclusion from the survey is that frontier markets are increasingly part of investor’s [...]

Silk Invest contributed to a report that focuses on the Innovative Approaches Along the Investment Value Chain in Sub-Saharan Africa Click here to view the report This report, “Private Equity In the Shadow of Giants: Innovative Approaches Along the Investment Value Chain in Sub-Saharan Africa,” surveys a wide range of stakeholders in the African private [...]

Silk Invest was featured in a BBC documentary about the great business opportunities in Ethiopia. WATCH THE 7 MINUTE DOCUMENTARY ON THE BBC      

Silk Invest was featured in BBC’s documentary about Business in Egypt after the revolution.  To listen, go to the BBC’s World Tonight Page. The 8 minute radio piece starts on minute 24:30   The piece can also be downloaded as a podcast Picture: Baldwin Berges with Charlotte Asthon of the BBC in Cairo