Industry and Sector Risk Advisory

The industry clusters are groups of B&M analysts devoted to covering specific (or any combination of) industries and sectors popular with investors, spanning multiple African cities, states, countries, and regions.

B&M’s seven industry clusters provide clients with timely analysis on economic, political, security, and social developments affecting an industry, and forecast the impact of these developments on a client’s bottom-line.

For example, B&M currently monitors and forecasts risks threatening the multiple sectors represented in a renowned fund consisting 50 African securities.

The Coverage

In addition to regional and geographic coverage, B&M provides industry-specific political, economic, social and security risk research, monitoring, analysis, and forecasting, focusing especially on sectors popular with international investors, including Banking & Financial Services, Precious Metals (Gold, Platinum Group Metals and Silver), Energy (Oil, Gas and Coal), Minerals & Other Metals, Telecommunications, Diamonds, and Agribusiness

The Applications for Business and Investment

Our analysts help clients incorporate political risk management into their plans for business and investment in African business sectors, especially at the point of entry and expansion.

Our flexible research template and pioneering AfriRisk Index©, the first comparative country risk index modeled to monitor, measure, and forecast political, economic, social, and security risks unique to Africa, can be adapted to track categories of risks prevalent in sectors of interest to our clients, including expropriation, bribery and regulatory risks.

Our analysts are experts on the sectors they cover as well as on general African politics, history and business. They monitor all developments affecting each industry, including those occurring within and outside of the continent.

The B&M Industry Clusters

• Precious Metals Cluster (Gold, Platinum Group Metals and Silver)
• Energy Cluster (Oil, Gas, Coal and Uranium)
• Minerals and Metals Cluster (Covers 18 Minerals and Metals)
• Agribusiness Cluster
• Diamond Cluster
• Telecommunications Cluster
• Banking & Financial Services Cluster

B&M also covers the following sectors:

Aerospace

Agribusiness

Arts & Crafts

Automotive

Building, Construction, Infrastructure and Civil Engineering

Chemicals

Consumer Electronics

Defense & Security

Education

Food & Beverages

Freight

Government

Information and Communications Technology

Insurance

Manufacturing

Media

Packaging

Petrochemicals

Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare

Power & Energy (conventional and alternative)

Public Utilities

Real Estate

Retail

Shipping

Transportation and Storage

Textiles & Clothing

Travel, Tourism and Recreation

Water