Press Release

The Nigerian Stock Exchange in partnership with Morgan Stanley, a Global Institutional Securities and Wealth Management firm,will be conducting the maiden edition of its Investors’ Clinic Series on February 15, 2012 in Lagos.

The one-day clinic will have in attendance top retail investors from Dealing Member firms across the country, coming in to share their investment experiences as well as learn from experts, strategies on how to properly structure their investment portfolios.

This is one of the new investor education initiatives designed by the Nigerian Bourse to address the low investor confidence in the market.

The Chief Executive Officer of The Exchange, Mr Oscar Onyema said that The Exchange developed this initiative in recognition of the need to bring back local retail investors to participate in the market.

“The Investors’ Clinic will help in educating these investors about portfolio diversification principles and the risks and rewards associated with investing in the market. Stockbrokers will also be exposed to ways of helping them restructure their portfolios to enable them make informed investment decisions” explained Onyema

It was revealed that The Exchange as part of a recent market segmentation exercise had classified listed companies into Large, Mid and Small Cap categories and stocks under Income and Growth groupings. By way of example, companies with Income Stocks means that they have a policy to pay dividend while Growth Stocks would be ones that do not pay dividends but rather plough back profits to grow the business.“The Clinic will assist investors in understanding and applying this type of information when developing their investment portfolios”, he stressed.

NSE