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Is the Insurance Sector the Next Honeypot?
Just as has happened (and is still happening) to the Nigerian banking sector, the Nigerian insurance industry appears to be on the threshhold of a momentous change. How it pans out is yet to be seen, but if you consider that Nigeria is grossly under-insured, the potential for growth would seem enormous. Market resistance to insurance is still very strong, granted, but it's not difficult to see that the right combination of customer-focused practices, well-crafted products, effective marketing and a few other well-targeted strategies can see the insurance market quickly expanding. Given the additional resources that have gone into the sector lately, the operators really have no choice but bring about positive change.
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Let's Read a Company Annual Report... Together!
If you are like most shareholders, reading the company annual report is not your forte. You possibly don't bother about them and will readily dump them as soon as you receive them in your mail. One question to consider for a moment is: "If annual reports were not important, why was a statutory provision made to compel companies to issue these relatively detailed reports on their operations?" Those statutory requirements, it must be appreciated, were designed to aid investors and protect their interest. Our reluctance to burrow into them may entail loss of vital investor information.
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The Challenge of Stock Selection, Revisited
For many people, taking that all-important decision to start investing, particularly in stocks, will prove a major challenge, albeit a turning point in their financial advancement effort. However, even when that crucial decision-point is crossed, another milestone to scale is the choice of specific stocks to invest in. Deciding what stocks to buy is difficult, for a number of reasons:
- There are no known stocks whose prices decidedly move in a single positive direction. Stock prices swing and could catch you on the wrong side. The implication is caution in selection.
- There is no perfect prediction of market price behaviour. If there was a place to obtain guaranteed price direction maps, every investor would line up for it.
- Nobody willingly wants to lose money and there is that concern about how to successfully pick stocks that will prove viable in terms of future performance.
- The number of listed stocks is continually growing with more IPOs, which compounds the challenge of selection, especially in the face of limited funding.
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Global Depository Receipts: What they Really Mean
If you say that this is the era of Global Depository Receipts (GDRs) in the Nigerian financial market, you won't be wrong. Banks, in particular, have found a new treasure in GDRs, or so it seems. Recently, Access Bank, GTBank and FCMB have used this security issue window. The Diamond Bank GDR offer is currently open. Union Bank has just obtained shareholders' approval for an intended share offer that includes a GDR tranche. So, this looks certain to continue. However, companies in Indian have used the GDR window more extensively. Over 30 issues were done in 1994 alone. Globally, a lot of GDRs are issued.
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Approved Insurance Companies and Other Sector Statistics
If you would like to broadly update yourself on insurance sector operators and related facts, here are some of the key statistics:
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