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Unit Trust Funds Performance, Q3'2022

Feb 5, 2023

Unit Trust Funds (UTFs) are Collective Investment Schemes that pool funds from different investors and are managed by professional fund managers. The fund managers invest the pooled funds in a portfolio of securities such as equity stocks, bonds or any authorized financial securities, with the aim of generating returns to meet the specific objectives of the fund. Following the release of the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) Quarterly Statistical Bulletin-Q4’2022, we analyze the performance of Unit Trust Funds, whose total Assets Under Management (AUM) have been steadily increasing, being among the most popular in...

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Equities Outlook:

Jan 29, 2023

In 2022, the Kenyan equities market was on a downward trajectory with NASI, NSE 20 and NSE 25 declining by 23.7%, 12.4% and 16.6%, respectively. Large cap decliners in 2022 included Safaricom, Bamburi, KCB Group, Diamond Trust Bank (DTB-K) and Equity Group of 36.7%, 17.5%, 16.4%, 16.0% and 15.6%, respectively. The performance during the year was mainly attributable to increased sell offs by foreign investors as they exited the market. Additionally, interest rate hikes in developed economies such as United States caused dollar investments to be more appealing and thus lowering their appetite for risky investments in emerging markets such as Kenya. Following the poor performance in the equities market in 2022, the market valuation closed the year at a price to earnings ratio (P/E) of 6.7x, 42.0% lower than the 11.5x recorded at the end of 2021 and 47.0% below the 12-year historical average of 12.6x. On the other hand, the equities market closed the year at a dividend yield of...

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Ruaka Research Note 2023

Jan 22, 2023

In recent years, Ruaka has become one of the fastest growing satellite towns in the Nairobi Metropolitan Area (NMA), and has become a major centre for Real Estate investment and development. Offering relatively higher returns of up to 7.5%, compared to satellite towns average of 6.9%, as highlighted in our Annual Markets Review 2022. This has also driven a construction boom in Ruaka supported by the growing demand for residential property. Additionally, there has been a shift by investors towards satellite towns attributable to availability of cheaper land for development in these areas, coupled with improved accessibility owing to key infrastructural developments that have unlocked value for investors. In 2022, land prices in satellite towns recorded the highest capital appreciations of 11.1% and

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Unlocking New Listings on Nairobi Securities Exchange

Jan 15, 2023

The Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) last recorded an Initial Public Offers (IPOs) in 2015, when Stanlib Investments issued an IPO of the first Real Estate Investment Trust (Fahari-Ireit) at the bourse, managing to raise Kshs 3.6 bn against the target of Kshs 12.5 bn, 28.8% success rate. This translates to an eight year IPO drought, with the most recent activity at the bourse being the listing by introduction (meaning no money was raise) of the Local Authority Pension Trust (LAPTRUST) Imara Income Real Estate Investment Trust (I-REIT)) under the Restricted Sub-Segment in 2022. LAPTRUST will hold 100.0% of the Imara I-REIT shares with no initial offer to the public. Currently the bourse has 66 listed securities with a total market capitalization of Kshs 1.9 tn as at 13th January 2023. The bourse continues to be Safaricom dominated, with Safaricom’s market capitalization of Kshs 881.4 bn equivalent to 46.3% of the entire market capitalization. Additionally, betw...

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Ghana’s Debt Restructuring

Jan 8, 2023

Debt sustainability has been a cause for concern within the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region and has been aggravated by a slow post pandemic recovery, elevated inflationary pressures and a backdrop of depreciating currencies in 2022. According to the Joint World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA) as of September 2022, eight countries in the region are identified as in debt distress while 14 are at high risk of debt distress, and 16 at moderate risks of debt distress. Additionally, according to the Bloomberg Global default risk index 2022,  for the SSA countries, Ghana and Kenya are ranked 1...

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