| In a recent Opalesque Radio interview with Sona Blessing, Nicolas Clavel, founder and chief investment officer of Scipion Capital, an investment manager specialising in self-liquidating short-term Commodity Trade Finance (CTF) with a focus on Africa, elaborates on the commodity trade finance opportunities, the hurdles and their ability to deliver consistent risk-adjusted returns.
From a sector perspective, the commodity trade finance fund focuses on minerals and agricultural commodities produced in Africa, which then tend to be shipped to destinations such as (mainly) China and Europe. The fund also finances the import of commodities into Africa, which is in sync with the continent’s growth and lack of available supplies for high in demand inputs such as cement and diesel...............................................Full Article: Source
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