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Kencom Sacco Investments : Policy Is Based on the Needs of Both Members and the Sacco

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 CST

Kencom Sacco has now developed an investment policy that emphasizes real estate investments instead of stocks and shares. The policy is based on ROI (returns on investment), ease of management and fewer risks.

Kencom Sacco Chairman, Mr. Jeremiah Sirma - 'How we keep our sacco growing'

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 CST

Kencom Sacco is one of the few saccos determined to pursue very clear and well reasoned investment policies. The result has been not only a satisfied and increasing membership, but also the satisfaction of knowing the members are benefitting from their investments in the sacco. Investment News discusses with its long-serving chairman, Mr. Jeremiah Sirma, (pictured) the philosophy behind the sacco's success and its future plans.

New issue of Investment News magazine

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 CST

New issue of Investment News magazine out.Get it here.

Safaricom IPO : Stockbrokers Now Raise Key Questions

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 CST

Safaricom shares are of great interest to investors if only because they have depressed prices at the Nairobi Stock Exchange wiped out a large section of stockbrokers and brought untold financial problems to investors who rushed the Safaricom Initial Public Offer (IPO).

How to Get the Best Mortgage for a Home

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 CST

Demand for urban homes in Kenya is estimated at 150,000 units a year. That means more people are out looking for mortgages. But how will you decide which mortgage to take? It depends on your ability to understand and evaluate your complex circumstances some of which stretch far into the future.

Counting Chinese Businesses in Kenya, So Far

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST

This year, more than 50 per cent of all the major building and construction projects have gone to Chinese companies. The catalogue of projects, worth billions of US dollars, which have so far been awarded to them, is long. It covers major highways and roads, airports and seaports, stadiums and university liberalities to provision of telephone services and oil prospecting.

Mwalimu Sacco:The Benefits of ISO Certification

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST

When Mwalimu Sacco Society became the first society to be certified by ISO in September 2009, many in the cooperative sector in Kenya wondered what it was all about. Was it really necessary for a sacco to be certified? I too, could not provide the answer to the question, so I went over for a discussion with the chairman of the Mwalimu Sacco, Mr. Shem Motuka.

Kenya's Economy - Harnessing Wisdom of Traditional Communities Can Make the Difference

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST

An important thing that African development planners will have to learn is to appreciate the wisdom of our ancestors when formulating important policies. Such wisdom may just be what we need to make Africa's backward, debt-ridden economies key players on the world stage.

K-Rep Bank Finds Gold among Kenya's Slum Dwellers

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST

Started as a micro-finance targeting mainly the poor in the slums, K-Rep has been oscillating between maintaining its image as micro-enterprises bank and a fully operational commercial bank targeting the heavy weights in the money market. Now, it seems, the bank has found a profitable middle ground.

Kenya - High-return Investment Opportunities in the Year 2010

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST

Kenya's $ 35 billion economy is eastern Africa's largest. It is a sophisticated, fast growing economy with fast expanding need for increased investments in practically all key areas. Here, we highlight the hottest of these opportunities in the year 2010.

Making Thika The Choice For Business

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:00:00 CST

Thika is best known to the world as the setting of British writer Elspeth Huxley's famous childhood memoirs, The Flame Trees of Thika, an internationally acclaimed book about a pioneering English family's efforts to establish a coffee farming business in colonial Kenya. But there is much more to Thika for both the serious businessman and the tourist as this report shows.

Meet Mutisya wa Munge, the Man Whose Cultural Innovation Earns Kenya Shs 200 million

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:00:00 CST

His single-handed efforts now feed millions of Kenyans, bring in more than Shs 200 million annually in foreign exchange. And the industry he started is one of the few growth industries in Kenya.

Kenya leads Eastern Africa in skill according to UN statistics.

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:00:00 CST

UN Stats: Kenya leads in skills in Eastern Africa,but overall life expectancy remains the same.

Proposed Barack Obama Monument Raises Controversy

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:00:00 CST

Multi-million shillings cultural centre at the Kogelo home of the Barack Obama's father seen as Kenya Government bribe for the American President to release pressure for democratic reforms in Kenya.

The Rise and Demise of the Kenya Planters Cooperative Union

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:00:00 CST

The collapse of the Kenya Farmers Association, the Kenya National Federation of Cooperatives and the Kenya Grain Growers Cooperative Union, and now the Kenya Planters Cooperative Union makes an interesting study of the cost of patronage in public institutions. Attention should now turn to the remaining so-called apex cooperative organizations. Many are already in the advanced stages of the diseases that afflicted those that have already gone away.