Cytonn CEO on 2017 and what next for the firm in new year

Joseph Muriithi | Dec 23, 2017

How has Cytonn managed to stay above macro-economic difficulties that have emerged this year? The operating environment has been somewhat tough but Cytonn has managed to stay above these difficulties by anticipating the challenges and pricing in the risk well in advance, while also taking advantage of opportunities that arose. What are some of these opportunities? Our investments team took advantage of the anticipated decline in performance of

the banking sector stocks following the enactment of the Banking (Amendment) Act, 2015 in September 2016 and bought up select fundamentally good stocks from the market at low prices. As banks hurried to cut costs anticipating declines in interest income, by carrying out staff lay-offs, we went into the market to pick up the best talent that joined our high net-worth distribution network, in order to meet our fund collection and real estate project sales targets for the year. What has the business environment been like for Cytonn in 2017? The

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2016 and bought up select fundamentally good stocks from the market at low prices. As banks hurried to cut costs anticipating declines in interest income, by carrying out staff lay-offs, we went into the market to pick up the best talent that joined our high net-worth distribution network, in order to meet our fund collection and real estate project sales targets for the year. What has the business environment been like for Cytonn in 2017? The ups and downs throughout the year. As mentioned above, the business environment in 2017 has been quite challenging and as a firm, we have had our ups and downs: Ups: In private equity, we managed to secure a significant deal in January, which is the 25 per cent stake acquisition in a leading real estate development firm, Superior Homes Kenya Ltd. SHK is the developer of the 163-acre Greenpark masterplan in Athi River on Mombasa Road, having put up over 400 homes and shall be our partner for satellite town master-planned developments. We expanded our real estate portfolio by launching RiverRun Estates, a 100-Acre development in Ruiru and our Sh20 billion Kilimani-based iconic mixed-use development project, “Cytonn Towers”. Within the year, we also broke ground on the Ridge in Ridgeways and Taraji Heights in Ruaka. Most recently, we handed over the contemporary villas in Amara Ridge, Karen. To better improve our corporate governance structures and to continue strengthening investor confidence in the firm, we subjected ourselves to a Global Credit Rating, where we received an initial long-term rating of BB (KE), with a stable outlook. Read full article here.