NR Indexes & Ratings

NR Indexes & Ratings provides Benchmark and Customised Indices, Default Ratings, Corporate Actions and Reference Market Data solutions for Institutional & Retail Investors. Its headline Africa Index range was launched in November 2005 to meet the needs for comprehensive and reliable data for risk management and securities structuring group - creating a truly Pan African benchmark for securities pricing.

The company supplies daily time-sensitive pricing (including evaluated pricing), company valuations, company fundamentals, issuer volatility, risk and correlated information for more than 900 listed and investable firms across Africa. We believe that total price transparency is the key for liquidity and growth in Africa's debt and equity markets, and we intend to power that growth.

NR Indexes & Ratings works with twelve major exchanges on the continent to provide expertise and market knowledge. Our own historic, proprietary and reference database provides the platform through which the Bloomberg Professional service and Reuters report on the flagship Top 40, Mid 45 and Top 100 Benchmark Indexes.

NR Indexes & Ratings has a research team that develops, distributes, and optimizes portfolio construction tools based on sophisticated models for stock selection, asset allocation, and risk management. The tools developed by the quantitative models for stock selection, asset allocation, and risk management. The tools developed by the quantitative team also support the Indexes, Ratings & Research Sales products offered to clients.

Our quantitative strategies involve complex calculations and numerous iterations on large amounts of data – that can be used by Asset Managers, Investment Banks and Research Groups. We are also able to provide a computational platform for easily performing these calculations, developing models, testing strategies, and deploying quantitative tools to our portfolio managers.

 

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In the Press & Commentary

(NR Capital) Jun 2011 - CNBC Africa - Regional Business Roundup on the Africa 

(Nex Rubica) Jun 2011 - World Entrepreneur Society : Can Africa sell its image to Managing Directors abroad?

(NR Indexes) Feb 2011: Country Brief: Egyptian Market Highlights 

(NR Capital) Jan 2011 : Deep Impact in Nigeria's Financial Markets

(NR Indexes) Jan 2010: - Electronic Trading Sweeps Africa

NR Indexes: Sep 2008 - Kenya Firms among top performers in Nex Rubica’s African Equity Capital Markets Review

Benchmark Commentary: With the Egyptian Stock Exchange (EGX) still closed, the North African constituent of the NR Africa Top 40 and NR Africa Mid 45 became more sensitive to volatility in the Sub Saharan markets. Nigeria being the major driver in the Top 40 index dropped by -1.4% over the week. Increased price volatility in the Nigerian Banking sector saw more casualties with First Bank, Zenith Bank and Guaranty Trust Bank all losing ground as investors hastily bought shares following the coming M&A activity in the sector. Kenya remained the best performing country in the Top 40 with Telcoms reporting positive numbers of about 5.5% up from last week.

The NR Africa Top 40 saw $118,56mio worth of shares traded this week with liquidity levels on the Benchmark moving up to 0.1% from a year to date high of 0.6%. The NR Africa Mid 45 was less volatile dropping -17.9712 points over the week an equivalent of $31mio. Morocco was the major country looser as it dropped by -2.1% and Industrials by -0.9%. Kenyan stocks dominated the Top 5 list with Mumias Sugar and NIC Bank breaking through this week.

Index Rebalancing Week: The NR Africa Top 40 saw El Ezz Alexandria (Egypt) exit the basket, replaced by Suez Cement (Egypt).

 

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