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22 July 2015 Multimedia

It’s Long Past Time for Investors to Pay Attention to Africa

  1. Melissa T. Cook, CFA

The African continent holds twenty percent of the world’s land area and just a bit more than three percent of its GDP. Will Ortel and Melissa Cook, CFA, discuss why it’s critical for companies and investors to pay attention to the continent, where

The African continent holds twenty percent of the world’s land area and just a bit more than three percent of its GDP. Will Ortel and Melissa Cook, CFA, discuss why it’s critical for companies and investors to pay attention to the continent, where they can fruitfully devote their attention, and how it is emerging as a battleground for a new category of company.

The Take 15 Series is a series of short interviews with leading practitioners on timely topics focused on the investment profession.