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Ai Index Series Summit in association with NYSE Euronext

15 September 2008

New York Stock Exchange, New York

African stock exchanges have provided impressive US $ returns for investors. There is increasing interest in developing Africa’s capital markets African equities represent a vastly underutilized option for international investors and have provided attractive returns in the last several years.

African Equities offer a superior risk/return profile that is not affected by trends in the more developed markets. Many African equities have very attractive Price/Earnings ratios. In 2007 some of the world's best performing stock exchanges were in Africa

Ai (Africa’s leading benchmark and Index provider) and NYSE - Euronnext as the world leader for listings have come together to host this annual roundtable to profile African companies and the institutional investment community to Wall Street

Objectives

MEASURING CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND RISK IN AFRICA
Africa is often characterised as poorly governed but research and hard evidence suggests that this perception has had the reverse effect on boardroom governance in African listed companies with many firms especially subsidiaries’ of multinationals being subjected to more stringent capital and management controls and thereby delivering greater cash flow and returns for their investors.

In countries such as Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Egypt and Botswana, legal protection for shareholders is comparable to that in other developing countries with many currently updating commercial codes and standards.

COMPANY & MARKET DYNAMICS
There is an increasing dynamic across global exchanges driving market consolidations and demutualization with exchanges listing on their own and considering listing on other exchanges. South Africa has taken the lead but number of dynamic partnership between African exchanges and a new wrath of products is altering the dynamic In Africa. This panel will assess the growing trends and emerging opportunities for African exchanges to access greater pools of liquidity and offer member companies greater access to global as well as continental institutional liquidity and local services.

MARKET INVESTABILITY - Liquidity / Execution in Africa
With the increasing development of the capital markets, Africa is going through many of the challenges other dynamic emerging markets went through taking the decisions about how to deal with currency controls, local ownership of listed assets and at the same time attract optimal investment from global investors.

INVESTABLE AFRICAN SECURITIES
Globalization in Africa is heavily influenced by companies demanding more affordable and sophisticated products and services to support their organizations growth and competitiveness in local let alone global markets. This is being driven by a recent number of high profile international capital raising exercises and international investment banks stepping up their local presence and service offerings in a number of African markets.

Who should attend

From Investment Banks, Commercial Banks, Wholesale Banks, Security Houses, Building Societies, Investment/Asset Management Firms, Hedge Funds, Pension Funds, Mutual Funds, Insurance Companies: Directors, Heads and Managers of:
* Liquidity Management
* Heads of Treasury
* Money Markets
* Asset liability management
* Compliance
* Regulatory affairs/policy/strategy
* Internal audit
* Governance
* Investment
* Risk Management
* SOX
* Heads of African Markets
* Mergers & acquisitions
* Product Developments
* Heads of strategy

From Stock/Derivatives Exchanges, Brokers/ECNs/ATSs CEOs, CIOs, COOs, along with Heads, Directors and Managers of:
* Listings
* Market Policy/strategy
* Market Data
* Market Structure
* Equities
* Equities Trading
* Electronic Execution
* Alternative Execution
* Trading
* Trading Infrastructure
* Market Data
* Front office Technology

From Consultancy and Advisory Firms:
Partners, Associated Partners, Heads, Principals, Managers and Consultants

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