Malawi is a small country with great but unrealised potential. Following a golden era in the 1970s, successive governments have struggled to deliver sustained economic growth and prosperity.

Genesis has kicked off the new year by strengthening its capability and expanding its services in financial risk management. This comes with the appointment of James Bernstein, a top risk professional, as Head of a new Risk Management Unit in the firm’s Financial Institutions Practice. 

The retail mass markets in many sectors of the Nigerian economy have remained shallow simply because business decision making is yet to be anchored on requisite research, global Economics Consultants, Genesis Analytics, has said.

In July 2013 Alyna Wyatt and Caitlin Smit from Genesis delivered a presentation to the National Consumer Financial Education Committee, which is made up of representatives from National Treasury, the Financial Services Board, the banking services and credit ombudsmen, and various education institutions and NGOs.

Dylan Smith, a researcher in the banking and financial services division at Genesis Analytics, has won top honours in the postgraduate category of the 2013 Nedbank/Old Mutual Budget Speech Competition. 

Genesis Analytics (“Genesis”) has been retained by Business Unity South Africa (“BUSA”) which represents South African business on macro­economic and high­level issues of national and international importance. Genesis has been requested by BUSA to provide expert economic analysis in relation to Eskom’s multi­year price determination (“MYPD 3”) application.

The debate over the role of pension funds in furthering South Africa’s developmental needs surfaced at the ANC policy conference in Midrand in June 2012. In a policy discussion document on state­ owned entities it was suggested that the large asset base comprising pension fund investments be leveraged for national development.

On 30 May 2012 Trishana Moodley, Graduate Recruitment Co­ordinator at Genesis Analytics, and Jason Wang, an Analyst and former student, attended the Prize Giving Ceremony hosted by the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the University of Pretoria in Hatfield. Genesis presented awards to three top ­achievers.

Genesis Analytics played a key role as expert economists in the ruling by the Competition Appeal Court (CAC) that approved the merger between DuPont Pioneer, a US-­based international developer and supplier of plant genetics, and Pannar, a family firm based in KwaZulu-Natal, subject to several conditions. 

Dr Lyal White of GIBS chats to Greg Mills, Director of the Brenthurst Foundation, and Stephan Malherbe, chair of Genesis Analytics, about African change and prosperity.