About The AfriRisk Index©

The AfriRisk Index© is a comparative country risk index modeled to distinctively monitor, measure, and forecast political, economic, social, and security risks unique to Africa, using both quantitative and qualitative data. The first of its kind, the AfriRisk Index© tracks up to 25 categories of risks prevalent in Africa, ranging from commodity price fluctuations to coup d’états.

The Coverage
Our unyielding focus on Africa enables us to be more thorough and efficient in our political risk research, analysis and forecasting than our competitors. As a result, the AfriRisk Index© covers all 53 African countries and five sub-regions, including East, West, North, South, and Central Africa. Overall, the index measures and forecasts risks on a continental, sub-regional, national, provincial, municipal, and industry level.

The Applications for Business and Investment
The AfriRisk Index© tracks 25 categories of potentially destabilizing political, economic, social, and security risks prevalent in Africa and of critical importance to investors, such as expropriation, bribery and regulatory risks.

Practical with extensive real-world applications, the index is built on a flexible research template that can be modified to monitor, measure, and forecast risks common in specific locations, regions and industries pertinent to an investor’s business and investment plans.

For example, the AfriRisk Index© is currently being used to measure and forecast risks threatening the multiple municipalities, provinces, states, countries, regions, and sectors represented in a renowned fund consisting 50 African securities.

To further inquire about or subscribe to The AfriRisk Index©, please contact us at info@bmconsultancy.net

How it Works
The AfriRisk Index© measures 25 evenly-weighted categories of political, economic, social, and security risks on a scale of 0-100, with 100 indicating perfect stability. A dedicated team of U.S. and Africa-based analysts collectively update, analyze and interpret the AfriRisk Index on a weekly basis to keep pace with the uniquely high volatility of African markets, where seemingly benign developments often have swift and ruinous effects. Due partly to the paucity and unreliability of some quantitative data on Africa, the AfriRisk Index uses qualitative data derived from extensive fieldwork and open-source research. The result of these weekly index updates, interpretations and analysis is then personalized to address each client’s unique set of investment objectives, highlighting and forecasting potential political, economic, social, and security risk stress points.

Country Coverage
The AfriRisk Index© covers all 53 African countries, and can be adapted to track individual or any combination of municipalities, provinces, states and industries within one or more countries.

Regional Coverage
The AfriRisk Index© can be modified to measure and forecast risks in any combination of African countries and regions pertinent to an investor’s business plans, including, but not limited to: the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD), the East African Community (EAC), the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC).

Sector and Industry Coverage
The AfriRisk Index© can also be adapted to measure and forecast risks in any combination of African industries and sectors (across multiple municipalities, provinces, countries and regions) pertinent to an investor’s business plans, including, but not limited to: Agribusiness, Banking & Financial Services, Mining/Extractive, Oil & Gas, Real Estate and Telecommunications.

About B&M Consulting, Inc.
B&M Consulting is the first political risk consultancy focused exclusively on Africa. We help our clients navigate and reduce the risk of doing business in Africa by closely monitoring and analyzing political, economic, security and social developments across the continent and forecasting their impact on a client’s bottom-line.

To further inquire about or subscribe to The AfriRisk Index©, please contact us at info@bmconsultancy.net

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