InvestData to Educate Investors on Market Potential

InvestData Consulting Limited has concluded plans to mobilise the Nigerian investing public on the potential of the nation’s capital market post general elections. The enlightenment workshop, according to the company has “May 2015 & Beyond: Equity Investment Made Easy,” as focus.

The Chief Operating Officer InvestData Consulting, Mr Ambrose Omordion,said in a statement that the workshop would enlighten investors on ways to play in the market in a post transition period.

According to him, the workshop would centre on post-May 29 market performance for previous election years and some drivers of the nation’s economic growth in the new dispensation.

He noted that the workshop would afford the investing public the opportunity to know the factors that would attract foreign investors to a particular industry or company.

Omorodion added that investors would also be able to identify the next growth stocks and how to exit from such companies and avoid any depression as experienced in recent past.

“The capital market would benefit from the recent political evolution in the country. Investors should reposition their portfolio in line with the expectations from the reforms expected from the new government after May 29. It is imperative for investors to know which stocks to buy now and sectors to invest in and the stocks to sell and the reasons,’’ he said.

He noted that the market would be largely driven by the policy the incoming government and its agents or regulators in different sectors listed on the exchange.

Some of the expected speakers at the event scheduled for May 16, are: Managing Director, APT Securities and Funds Limited, Garba Kurfi; Head, Capital Market, Trw-Stockbrokers Limited, Abdul-Rasheed Oshoma Momoh,and Managing Director of Datatrust Consulting Limited, Mike Uzoris among others.