Author: InvestAdvocate

Africa Loses Hundreds of Billions of Dollars to Exclusion: New Campaign Urges Leaders to Do More

December 8, 2025/ADF Excluding people with disabilities costs African economies hundreds of billions in lost GDP every year.  The figure is based on International Labour Organization estimates that low and middle-income countries lose between 3% and 7% of their GDP due to the exclusion of persons with disabilities from the workforce.  Applied […]

FG, SEC, NGX Group Forge Unified Direction on Capital Gains Tax Reform

December 8, 2025/NGX The Federal Government has inaugurated the National Tax Policy Implementation Committee (NTPIC), marking a deliberate shift toward a more predictable and market-aligned rollout of the newly enacted capital-gains-tax (CGT) provisions. The move follows extensive technical engagements with key capital-market institutions, including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) […]

SEC Announces Departure of OIEA Director Lori J. Schock

December 8, 2025/US SEC The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Lori J. Schock, who has served as the Director of the Office of Investor Education and Assistance (OIEA) since 2009, will retire from the agency at the end of December. “I have known Lori for decades, when I […]