The Reading Room

Ghana’s first hedge fund planned by ex-exchange regulator

Investors looking for more sophisticated avenues of investment

Investors incur opportunity costs by overlooking new markets

Challenges of investing in Africa are deterring global investors

MMI puts its faith in small, active managers

Launches list of "premium partners' that will offer their white-label unit trust funds

Push for alternatives forcing managers to change stripes

Move into alternatives by institutional investors is reshaping the money management business

AIMA releases guide to hedge fund performance

Comparing hedge fund performance to the S&P 500 can be an "apples and oranges' comparison

Private equity in Africa maturing quickly

African private equity outperforms, E&Y research finds

Compliance function moves to centre stage

Occupies an all-powerful position in an investment house

The strategic case for hedge fund investing

There is something to be said for slow and steady

Political, social unrest threaten Africa’s growth

Continent's economy seen expanding more than 2013

Economic growth in Africa to rise

Sub-Saharan economies to outperform upper-middle-income nations in North Africa