Africa

Cru investment management founder Jon Maguire cashed in his £150,000 investment in Arch cru just 14 weeks before the fund range was suspended, and while his firm was still promoting the troubled fund to other investors.

AFRICA'S UNTAPPED STORY

MENA: THEN AND NOW

Tom Walker, manager of the Martin Currie Portfolio Investment Trust, discusses how the tragedy in Japan demonstrates just how small the world has become.

Current political turmoil in North Africa will accelerate rather than derail a long-term structural change going on in the region, according to Fadi Al Said, head of Mena investment at ING Investment Management.

The disruption and anti-government protests seen in the MENA region stems from the US Federal Reserve printing money, said Aberdeen's head of global equities, who has moved defensive to protect portfolios from further unrest.

Billionaire investor George Soros has urged Western nations to support revolutions in the Middle East to gain allegiance with new-found democracies.

The re-opening of the Egyptian stock exchange has been further delayed as the exchange head rejects calls to cancel trades placed in the last few days it was open.

Emerging markets firm Charlemagne Capital has launched the Magna MENA fund, which will invest up to 90% in Gulf Co-operation Council regions to play higher oil prices.

SWIP's Richard Dunbar discusses whether the free market will bring prices back from recent highs in time to prevent further economic and political damage.