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Afroil -- Defying All Odds
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 This petroleum marketing company has experienced some remarkable swings in fortune. First, unlike most other petroleum companies, it was conceived and birthed by an academician. It was poorly brought up and ran into the murky waters of mismanagement and strangulating debt. It eventually died. Remarkably, it came back to life and three years on has continued to move steadily ahead.
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Margin Investing -- What's in it for you?
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 “I am a regular reader of your monthly magazine…. I recently secured a 12-month loan facility worth N3 million from my bank and I would like to make good use of it in the stock market between now and next September.”
One of our readers wrote recently. Borrowing to invest in the capital market or margin investing is a rising trend in the Nigerian market.
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FBN Heritage Fund -- Another bold step
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 Recently, the First Bank of Nigeria, a foremost financial institution in Nigeria, through its subsidiary, FBN Capital, introduced a new baby into the market. The baby, FBN Heritage Fund, was conceived to take advantage of increasing growth in the capital market to help interested long-term investors achieve quality returns on their investment.
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 In our maiden edition early this year, with the bulls loose in the market, we spoke with some top fund managers, analysts and market researchers on their most attractive stocks for the year. This we did knowing from experience that in a bull market fundamentals are often thrown overboard as speculators and momentum investors jostle for quick profits. The five stocks recommended by the fund managers we spoke to then have continued to post strong and impressive results. Of those five, two – WAPCO and Guinness – have again made it to this recent list.
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Six Months Outlook for the Capital Market
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 Over the last couple of months, the capital market has lost momentum, after a strong first two quarters of the year. The market has been bearish since the third quarter. The All Share Index dropped by over 2% in the third quarter. Should investors lose sleep over this or is it a superficial setback, the market trying to find its equilibrium? .
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