📊 NSSF's top 5 quoted equity holdings in 2024 by value: —>Safaricom – KES 20.3B —>Equity Bank – KES 10.8B —>KCB Bank – KES 10.1B —>Kenya Re – KES 4.2B —>East African Breweries – KES 4.3B

In our newsletter this week: 💰 TransCentury [TransCentury Plc.] Posts First Profit Since 2013 🏦 Equity Group [Equity Bank Kenya] Q1 2025 Results 📊 DTB [DTB Kenya] Q1 2024 Results Link in the tweet below.

The growth in the NSSF fund value since 2013:

Congratulations to Arvocap Asset Managers on their first anniversary today! In just one year, they have grown to manage KES 2B+ in assets and serve 10k+ clients.

Ethiopian Airlines plans to order at least 20 regional jets to expand its domestic fleet. The CEO says they’re evaluating Embraer E2, Airbus A220, and Boeing 737 MAX 7 though the MAX 7 still lacks certification. [Reuters Africa]

Summary of Markets Today [03 June 2025]: 🟢 Top Gainer: Nairobi Securities Exchange up 8.38% to 7.50 🔴 Top Loser: Olympia Capital Holdings down 8.88% to 3.49 Notable Highlights: — Top traded counter: Equity Group, accounting for 30.7% of turnover, declined 1.3% to KES 42.50,

They lost KES 17B in FY23/24 but now want to invest in KES 25B in the Nairibi-Mau Summit road?

Wakenya: "Can we eat those reserves?" 😅

Kenya Development Corporation has opened applications for the SAFER Fund to boost lending to MSMEs through licensed MFIs, banks, and SACCOs.

How Britam is structured:

The National Assembly's Budget & Appropriations Committee has tabled its report on the 2025/26 Budget Estimates. Here's what you need to know: Note: All changes are relative to what we saw come from National Treasury on 2025/26 Budget Estimates Expenditure Changes · The

Recession is near?

Summary of Markets Today [04 June 2025]: 🟢 Top Gainer: East African Cables up 10.00% to 1.76 🔴 Top Loser: Uchumi Supermarket down 8.00% to 0.23 Notable Highlights: — Stanbic Holdings was the day’s most traded top mover, accounting for 26.9% of the day’s turnover. The

More debt.

The real heroes.

Kenyans when the government suggests new taxes:

Given the state of the economy, it is quite ironic that MPs are proposing the largest increase of 13% to their own budget:

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink: "In a more nationally attuned model, markets channel citizens’ savings into local businesses and infrastructure. The gains flow back to people, helping them afford homes, education, retirement. Put simply: people will fuel their country’s economic