New York — Africa investor (Ai), a leading international investment and communications group, today announced the winners of the prestigious 2014 Ai Index Series Awards. The results were revealed at the Ai CEO Institutional Investment Summit, which took place today at the New York Stock Exchange.
Launched in 2007, and linked to the Africa investor (Ai) Index Series, the Ai Index Series Awards are 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.
Commenting on the winners, Hubert Danso, CEO of Africa investor, said, "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."
Most Innovative African Stock Exchange was awarded to the Egyptian Exchange, while Standard Bank was recognised as Best African Investment Bank. Standard Chartered Bank nabbed the Award for Best Africa Research Team. The Securities and Exchanges Commission of Nigeria took Most Innovative Capital Markets Regulator.
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 Guaranty Trust Bank.
Mark Wiessing, CEO of National Microfinance Bank, was recognised as Ai100 CEO of the Year. Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore took Ai40 CEO of the Year and Ai SRI 50 CEO of the Year went to Titus Naikuni, CEO of Kenya Airways. Ai SRI 30 CEO of the Year was awarded to Phillips Oduoza,
CEO, UBA Bank. 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. 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.
Lastly, our African Capital Markets Personality of the Year was awarded to Arunma Oteh for her outstanding work with the Securities and Exchange Commission of Nigeria.
Africa investor (Ai) Index Series Awards 2014
1. Most Innovative African Stock Exchange
Egyptian Exchange (EGX)
2. Best Africa Investment Bank
Standard Bank
3. Best Africa Research Team
Standard Chartered Bank
4. Most Innovative Capital Markets Regulator
Securities and Exchange Commission, Nigeria
5. Best Performing Broker in Africa
Auerbach Grayson & Co.
6. Best Africa Fund Manager
Old Mutual
7. Best African Listing
Seplat Petroleum Development Company (Nigeria)
8. Best Performing Ai100 Company
Zambia Sugar
9. Best Performing Ai40 Company
Safaricom
10. Most Innovative Ai SRI 50 Company
Kenya Airways
11. Most Innovative Ai SRI 30 Company
Guaranty Trust Bank
12. Ai100 CEO of the Year
Mark Wiessing, CEO, National Microfinance Bank
13. Ai40 CEO of the Year
Robert Collymore, CEO, Safaricom
14. Ai SRI 50 CEO of the Year
Titus Naikuni, CEO, Kenya Airways
15. Ai SRI 30 CEO of the Year
Phillips Oduoza, CEO, UBA Bank
16. International Sovereign Wealth Fund Initiative of the Year
Abu Dhabi Investment Authority
17. African Sovereign Wealth Fund Initiative of the Year
Fundo Soberano de Angola
18. International Pension Fund Initiative of the Year
Third Swedish National Pension Fund (AP3)
19. African Pension Fund Initiative of the Year
Botswana Public Officers' Pension Fund
About Africa investor - www.africainvestor.com
Africa investor is a specialist investment and communications group advising governments, international organisations and businesses on communication strategies for capital market and foreign direct investments in Africa. Africa investor publishes Africa investor, the leading international newsstand magazine for Africa's investment decision makers; maintains the Africa investor 40 Investors' Index, hosts the Ai Index Series Summit & Awards and the Africa investor Infrastructure Projects Summit & Awards, among other events.
About the Africa investor Index Series
Africa investor Research provides a family of products and services that support our clients' investment processes in major asset classes across Africa. Our goal is to leverage our deep understanding of Africa's financial markets to turn data-driven insights into tools that our clients can use to meet their investment process needs. Ai produces weekly, value-traded adjusted, market capitalisation-weighted indices. Its Ai100 and Ai 40 Investors' indexes capture the top 40 and 100 of the largest and most liquid publicly traded stocks across Africa ranking them by market capitalisation and by liquidity as measured by the average daily value traded in US Dollars. The Ai40 and Ai100 indices can be found on Bloomberg and Reuters and are licensed to fund managers.
For more information on the Africa investor (Ai) CEO Institutional Investment Summit and Index Series Awards, contact Catherine Wright on +27 11 783 2431 or cwright@africainvestor.com.
