Monday, March 10, 2014

Africa's Key to Success: Investment Management

Investment management encompasses a broad spectrum of financial generating activities and their long term sustainability. It can be said to cover areas and sectors such as stock trading,- both online stock trading and over the counter stock trading-; investment services such as consultancy, human resource development and human resource management and viable natural resources exploitation.
A Map of Africa's Natural Resources

Trading Stocks
Most of African companies, especially the SMEs, are grossly undervalued. Raising capital and increasing the overall company value that would help make the company valuable has been the major hurdle. Investment advisers argue that public listing is one of the ways of opening up a company to innovation and competitive success. When a company is listed, it allows stock trading of its shares amongst the public through an investment broker.
However, one question arises: how do you engage in buying stocks? Stock refers to shares of companies listed publicly. The public is invited to buy shares in the company and as such, own a certain percentage of the company. They earn dividends proportional to their total stocks they own in the company.

How to Buy Stocks
On how to buy stocks, one can engage an investment company that will acts as the investment broker by buying stocks in the desired company of the client on his behalf. The client pays a brokerage fee. Alternatively, an interested party can buy stocks online and engage in online stock trading by exploiting the numerous available online investing platforms. Usually, the interested client opens up a Centr
al Depository And Settlement Account (CDS Account) through his financial institution of choice.  Through this account and depending on his account balance, he can engage in online stock trading by buying stocks online and selling them as he wishes and desires. this is what is referred to as online investing.

The full exploitation of this investment opportunity holds the key to spontaneous economic growth in Africa. To ensure that this is realized, not only is good governance required but also development of quality fully automated cloud infrastructure complete with computer tech support.

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