Privately Equitable And AdVentureous: News From The Cape

Group Partner and Head of the firm's Corporate, Finance and Funds team, Paul Wilkes recently travelled to Cape Town for the South Africa funds roadshow. Paul shares his thoughts from the trip below:

I am sitting comfortably (for now) in my seat, on BA2040 Cape Town to Gatwick after a busy week in the warm and welcoming South Africa. Time spent with fellow delegates from Guernsey learning, always learning, about the local market and spreading the good word about the role Guernsey plays in supporting it; and there is so much more that can be done.

In the midst of a pandemic (in both the medical and media-frenzy sense), with markets shaking and shuddering more than the Boeing 777 underneath me, it was refreshing to reflect on the long-run opportunities for a continent that will be home to seven of the world's twenty most populous nations by 2050.