Sunil Benimadhu, Chief Executive of the Stock Exchange of Mauritius (SEM) & African Securities Exchanges Association (ASEA) President: “Welcome to all the delegates to the 16th ASEA Annual General Meeting and Flagship Conference. I would like to commend our gracious host, the Egyptian Exchange for organizing this year's event. The main theme of this year flagship conference is unleashing African investment potentials. I think this theme is a perfect concurrence with tremendous investment opportunities that Africa and African stock markets offer to the international investment community. In an international economic environment characterized by zero or sub-zero growth rates, Africa seems to be back to on the track with an average growth rates exceeding 5%. More importantly, Africa's growth is not an even in a resource base, but it seems to get across a wide spectrum of sectors and activities. So I invite the investment and international investment communities to have a closer look at Africa's growth potentials and to invest in the great companies that are listed across the different stock exchanges in Africa. Africa's time is now and now is the time to invest in the great companies that are listed across the different stock exchanges in Africa."
