Professional Documents
Culture Documents
According to the Director General, the creation of the Child • Filing of returns at the Register General
Finance Club by the SEC was to motivate children from Department for changes in stated capital
upper primary to senior high schools to use and manage
the internet more useful than indulging in other activities • The establishment of investor’s relation desk to
which they will not benefit from. enhance shareholder relationship and resolution of
shareholder complaints.
Rev. Daniel Ogbametey Tetteh who spoke at the
programme encouraged the students to read more The Director-General of SEC emphasized the need for
financial and investment literature to know how to spend listed companies to improve disclosures in their annual
less, save more and invest to build wealth for their future. reports, using the 52 corporate governance disclosure
items recommended by UNCTAD as the standard. He also
SEC Ghana Organised Health advised the CEOs and CFOs to ensure that reports issued
on their financial statements by audit firms are signed in
Walk To Ushere the name of the partner in charge of the audit as that is
SEC Organizes Training for in the country. He explained that the review of the
Securities Industry Law would bring credit rating agencies,
Financial and Economic venture capital funds, commodity exchanges, private
equity funds and other of operators under the supervision
Journalists of SEC to enhance investor confidence in the market. He
called for a policy that will ensure that companies
operating in sectors like telecommunications, banking,
Members of the Institute of Financial and Economic insurance, mining, oil and gas list part of their shares on
Journalists attended a training seminar on Corporate the stock exchange after operating for a number of years in
Governance at the SEC on 14th November, 2014. The the country.
training was on the topic “Who is running the company:
guiding journalists to report on corporate governance”. The Director-General of the National Development
Planning Commission, and Senior Economic Advisor at The
The Director-General of SEC, Mr. Adu A. Antwi who Office of the President, Dr. Nii Moi Thompson, who also
facilitated the programme emphasized the need for -spoke at the seminar said the Government has a
financial and economic journalists not to always wait for transformation agenda, a matrix under the country’s
information to break out before publishing same, but development agenda, would seek to develop a set of
rather be the ones to bring out the news. He cited sub-sectors christened “FIRE” – finance, insurance and real
attending annual general meetings of companies and estate. He encouraged Cambridge Capital to expand its
reading of annual reports of companies as things that financial literacy beyond corporate clients to the youth
financial journalists can do to bring out news about the through churches and schools to increase the savings
operations of the companies. culture in the country
SEC’s Message
Get your company listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange, get
access to capital to grow your business, create employment
to Entrepreneurs
and help develop the economy. Contact a broker-dealer or an
investement adviser for support.
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Knowledge Bank
What It Means To Invest
Investing involves using your money to buy financial assets Bonds: A bond is an instrument used by the issuer to
such as shares or bonds to increase your future value, or borrow money from the holder with an obligation to
putting your savings to work for your money to grow. This repay the principal and interest on future dates. When
means that you make your money available to be put into a you invest in bonds you lend your money to the issuer of
venture and thereby benefit from the profits from that the bond who may be a company or government. If you
venture. Imagine a person who makes a lot ofmoney from invest in bonds, you receive a promised fixed amount of
his work and not needing all that money immediately; interest on your investment every half- year or every year.
he/she could decide to buy and stock e.g. building It is an obligation on the issuer of the bonds to pay you
materials, jewellery, cloth etc. the interest.
He would then spend time and resources to take care of Mutual Funds/ Unit Trusts: Mutual funds and unit
these assets and subsequently use them or sell them, trusts allow investors to pool their money together under
hoping to obtain profit. This is a form of investment. the management of a professional fund manager who is
However, investing with a financial institution frees you responsible for investing the pooled resources in specific
from the responsibility of managing the investment. It is investment opportunities. Mutual funds and unit trusts
done on your behalf by professionals and you receive the are designed principally for small savers; you can start
profits when they come in whilst paying the professionals investing in these schemes with as little as GHC 5.00 and
for the service. buy more shares or units ona regular basis with even
smaller monthly payments. When you invest in a mutual
Forms of Investments Available To You fund or unit trust, you become a part-owner of the fund’s
assets and share in the returns from investments made by
There are different investment products to choose from the fund manager. Your investment may, however, fall in
and you need to educate yourself fully about them to value if the fund makes a loss.
enable you to determine and choose the one that best suits
your situation and financial need. Available investment Selling Your Investment
products to choose from include fixed deposit, shares, You can sell part or all of your investments in shares,
bonds and mutual funds/unit trust. bonds, mutual funds or unit trusts any time you want to
do so. Getting your shares or bonds sold quickly depends
Fixed Deposit or Certificate of Deposit: When you on the availability of buyers in the market and the price
invest in a fixed deposit, you lend your money to the that you may want to sell at. For interest in mutual funds
financial institution and benefit from the interest that or unit trusts, the fund manager stands ready at all times
accrues from that. You can invest in a fixed deposit by to buy from the investor.
paying money into an account set up for you by the
relevant financial institution. After going through the Investment and Risk
relevant processes you will be given proof that you have Like many of life’s activities, investments are associated
invested in the form of a certificate of deposit. This gives with risk. Risk is the possibility of losing part or all of the
you a fixed amount of interest which may be paid to you money invested. Investment-associated risk is the chance
periodically over the life of the investment. It is an that the invested capital will drop in value which means
obligation on the financial institution to pay you the that your aim for investing may not be achieved because
interest. the investment does not work as one hopes or expects.
Approvals
During the fouth quarter of 2014, approvals were given to various entities to operate as follows.
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Enforcement Actions
During the quarter under review the following market operators were sanctioned for various violations of
the Securities Industry Law.
Jos Securities & Investment Failure to renew operating licence of company and 5,400.00
Management Limited two investment representatives.
Canal Capital Limited Failure to renew operating licence of company and 6,600.00
three investment representatives.
Ecobank Capital Late submission of Funds Under Management 500.00
Advisors Limited report for 3rd quarter 2014.
Ecobank Investment Late submission of cashflow and liquid funds 800.00
Managers Limited report for 3rd quarter 2014
Nimed Capital Limited Operating without a licence. 3,000.00
National Investment Bank Late renewal of Custodian licence. 3,000.00
UT Bank Late submission of custodian report for 3rd quarter 2014 5,100.00
Fidelity Bank Late submission of custodian report for 3rd quarter 2014 5,100.00
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Performance Of Equities
on the Ghana Stock Exchange
Closing Price(GH¢) Closing Price(GH¢) Gain / (Loss)
Sept 2014 Dec 2014 (GH¢)
Name of Company
1 African Champion Ltd. 0.03 0.02 (0.01)
2 Aluworks Limited. 0.03 0.02 (0.01)
3 AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. 37.00 37.00 -
4 Ayrton Drug Manufacturing Ltd. 0.17 0.18 0.01
5 Benso Oil Palm Plantation. 3.66 4.10 0.44
6 Cal Bank Ltd. 0.93 1.01 0.08
7 Camelot Ghana Ltd. 0.15 0.12 -
8 Clydestone (Ghana) Ltd. 0.04 0.03 -
9 Cocoa Processing Co. Ltd. 0.02 0.02 -
10 Ecobank Ghana Ltd. 7.11 7.60 0.49
11 Ecobank Transnational Inc. 0.33 0.28 (0.05)
12 Enterprise Group Ltd. 1.64 1.75 0.11
13 Fan Milk Ltd. 4.90 5.25 0.35
14 GCB Bank Ltd. 5.11 5.30 0.19
15 Ghana Oil Company Limited. 0.99 1.05 0.06
16 Golden Star Resources Ltd. 2.34 2.34 -
17 Golden Web Ltd. 0.03 0.03 -
18 Guiness Ghana Breweries Ltd. 3.10 3.20 0.10
19 HFC Bank (Ghana) Ltd. 1.35 1.50 0.15
20 Mechanical Llyod.Co. Ltd. 0.26 0.28 0.02
21 Mega African Capital Ltd. 3.59 4.50 0.91
22 Pioneer Kitchenware Ltd. 0.06 0.06 -
23 Produce Buying Company Ltd. 0.12 0.12 -
24 PZ Cussons Ghana Ltd. 0.39 0.30 (0.09)
25 Sam Woode Ltd. 0.04 0.04 -
26 SG-SSB Limited. 0.93 1.00 0.07
27 SIC Insurance Company Ltd. 0.40 0.37 (0.03)
28 Standard Chartered Bank Gh. Ltd. 18.25 20.35 2.10
29 Starwin Products Ltd. 0.03 0.02 (0.01)
30 Total Petroleum Ghana Ltd. 6.10 6.10 -
31 Transactional Solutions (Ghana) Ltd 0.03 0.03 -
32 Trust Bank Ltd. (The Gambia) 0.27 0.24 (0.03)
33 Tullow Oil Plc. 36.00 34.99 (1.01)
34 Unilever Ghana Ltd. 15.75 10.70 (5.05)
35 UT Bank Ltd. 0.27 0.25 (0.02)