Thomas Smicklas

How Africa’s Changing Population Impacts ETFs

I remain to be convinced that Africa as a whole will be a viable investment inclusion. How many times over the past decades have we been told of the dawn of African investment opportunities? To many to count.

In one must invest in the Dark Continent, perhaps the best investment to consider are Chinese companies having a foothold in Africa using slave labor without environmental restructions to extract minerals and carbon-based entities from African earth - with the protection of African despots lining their pockets with bribes.

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Could Egypt’s Instability Cause Trouble for Africa ETFs?

Possibly, Africa itself never going to "stable". Ask any (legitimate) businessperson who has attempted to open up shop there.

The largest industry is corruption, and there is no index for that.