Euvin Naidoo Quotes

Euvin Naidoo — South African Businessman born on December 30, 1971,

In 2011 Euvin Naidoo was selected by Forbes onto their Top 10 most Powerful and Influential Men under Forty in Africa list. He is currently a banking executive in Johannesburg, South Africa. A graduate of the Harvard Business School, Euvin Naidoo is also an alumnus of global international management consulting firm McKinsey & Co., having started his career at the Firm in the 1990s with a focus on growth strategies, turnarounds and engagements in Africa within financial services, telecommunications, metals & mining and airlines/transport... (wikipedia)

Africa is the second-largest continent, a landmass second from Asia. It also is the second most populated continent, with 900 million people. In fact - coming back to the land mass - Africa is so big that you could fit in the continental United States, China, and the entire Europe into Africa and still have space.

You can make money, you can lose money in Africa. But opportunities, boy oh boy, they exist.

Global capital is agnostic - it has no loyalties. There's an overhang of capital in the U.S., and the key is yield pickup. What Africa is providing is a diversification play and also opportunities for yield pickup for the investor that's aware of what he or she is doing.

As an investment banker, I'm in the cross-flow of information and the changes that are taking place in capital markets.

Euvin Naidoo Quotes

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