The Proactive Shareholders Association of Nigeria has urged investors and financial analysts to always study the trend in the nation’s stock market before making investment decisions, saying that the market still has great fundamentals and opportunities.
Gbade Adegumo, vice chairman board of trustees of the association said this recently at the association annual investors’ seminar tagged, ‘Investors Summit 2009’, at Ibadan. He said investors should be proactive and must always monitor every development in the market.
According to him, investors should be able to do simple analysis of shares and know when to invest and the type of shares to buy. The market is still very sound and within the next few months or years the stock market would pick up.
He cautioned that the capital market is a long term market, “do not get deceived when people or stock brokers asked you to buy a particular share and that in the next few months you would make a huge profit. Investing today is for a benefit tomorrow and when you make the right investment you would not regret it,” he added.
Speaking further, he reminded investors that their principal investment ability is registered in them and not the director or stock broker appointed forum or manage their shares, he said investors should have the ability to select various options from their simple analysis particularly in this period of meltdown.
Aderinde Taiwo, national coordinator of the association also noted that the seminar was organised to rekindle the interest of investors and further senistise them on several opportunities in the Nigerian stock market.
According to him, “We had to do a lot of sensitisation programmes for our members so as to keep them constantly informed about the development in the capital market, we realized that our shareholders deserved to be constantly informed with market situations and that is why we organised this kind of forum where professionals and stakeholders from different background could help address various issues on our economy,”.
He said that “most investors in Nigeria do not have the best of information that would enable them know and interpret the best options of business they should invest in” many do not have the technically and analytical will to understand when to buy shares. They do not know how they can play in the market and that is the essence of this seminar to help furnish investors with information on market trend.
Nornah Awoh, capital market analyst while speaking with media representatives disclosed that, government can also do more by making sure that the economy is on the run. According to him, “if for instance, capital projects are running contractors would work, people would be employed at the site and the money that is coming from such projects would also contribute immensely to the nation’s economy”.