By Yakubu LAAH InvestAdvocate
Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has won the ‘’Most Innovative Capital Markets Regulator’’ Award for the third consecutive time.
SEC Nigeria had won the award in 2012 and 2013, Africa investor (Ai), a leading international investment and communications group, had on Tuesday announced the winners of the prestigious 2014 Ai Index Series Awards presented at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
Similarly, Arunma Oteh, director general of Nigeria’s SEC won the ‘’African Capital Markets Personality of the Year’’ Hubert Danso CEO of Africa investor said Oteh was given the award for her outstanding work with the Commission.
“Congratulations to all Ai winners. Once again, this latest Academy of Ai Index Series Awards winners attests to the world class quality and investment leadership that prevails in Africa, and we are delighted to be able to recognise them, along with all the shortlisted companies in all the hotly contested categories,” Danso said.
Other awardees’ are the Egyptian Exchange; winning the ‘’Most Innovative African Stock Exchange’’ while Standard Bank was recognised as ‘’Best African Investment Bank and Standard Chartered Bank winng the Award for the ‘’Best Africa Research Team’’
The ‘’Best Performing Broker in Africa’’ went to Auerbach Grayson & Co while Old Mutual was awarded Best Africa Fund Manager. Seplat Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria was recognised as ‘’Best African Listing’’.
In the Ai Index company categories, ‘’Best Performing Ai100 Company’’ was awarded to Zambia Sugar; ‘’Best Performing Ai40 Company’’ went to Safaricom; ‘’Most Innovative Ai SRI 50 Company’’ was awarded to Kenya Airways, and ‘’Most Innovative Ai SRI 30 Company’’ went to Nigeria’s Guaranty Trust Bank Plc (GTBank).
In the pensions and sovereign wealth funds categories, ‘’International Sovereign Wealth Fund Initiative of the Year’’ was awarded to the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. Fundo Soberano de Angola was recognised as ‘’African Sovereign Wealth Fund Initiative of the Year’’.
While the ‘’International Pension Fund Initiative of the Year’’ went to Third Swedish National Pension Fund (AP3) and the Botswana Public Officers’ Pension Fund was recognised as ‘’African Pension Fund Initiative of the Year,’’.
The Ai Index Series Awards was launched in 2007 and as at date the only pan-African Awards designed to recognise Africa’s best performing stock exchanges, pension and sovereign wealth funds, listed companies, investment banks, research teams, regulators, socially responsible companies and fund managers. It is a uniquely African capital markets platform.
