CDG manages saving funds mainly composed of social security funds and postal savings. The company also manages two public retirement and provident funds: CNRA and RCAR. Territorial development has been a key feature of CDG’s strategy in recent years...

If 2009 was the ‘Year of Hope,’ then 2010 will be remembered as the rather less pithy, ‘Year of Continued Recovery.’ Investors across the globe were seen eagerly reading and reacting to the various economic swings in various financ...

The most important fact for any investment in any country within the African space is that they have someone on the ground 352 days a year monitoring and mentoring investment companies. At Wentworth International we have made two recent investments, the f...

The Caisse de Dépôt et de Gestion (CDG) is a public financial institution founded in 1959. The activities of the Caisse de Dépôt et de Gestion flow from its original mandate as legal custodian and manager of funds of private orig...

The UN Environmental Programme is directing all developed countries to help emerging nations reduce carbon emissions from buildings and establish worldwide sustainable development assessment systems.Supporters of the UN drive for sustainable development a...

PetroVietnam Insurance Corporation (PVI) was established in 1996 as a captive insurance company for the Vietnam Oil & Gas Corporation currently known as the Vietnam National Oil & Gas Group (PetroVietnam). PVI has positioned itself as a leader in ...

Eighteen months after the onset of the US-led financial crisis and economic downturn – events which had appeared to shatter more than a decade of uninterrupted growth on the world’s poorest continent – Africa is bouncing back. Not only h...

Up to date, 111 economic units have been privatised in the industrial sector ; within the next two years, it is expected that another 85 units will undergo privatisation and by the end of the next three years, it is envisaged that the total number of econ...

Streets in central Harare were lined with black-market traders exchanging huge wads of Zimbabwean dollars for US dollars or South Africa rand.One trader, who did so well illegally dealing in foreign exchange he could afford to take a second wife, has take...

Saudi Arabia is discussing extending development loans to Syria as ties between the two countries improve but there will not be direct cash assistance, the Saudi central bank governor said.Diplomatic activity between Damascus and Riyadh has picked up in t...