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The class is first and the scroll is red
IT IS A FIRST CLASS FROM THE NIGERIAN LAW SCHOOL
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Posting for my mum.
First in her bloodline to leave an emotionally abusive marriage after 30 years🤭❤️
My rockstar queen fr🫶🏾 She got the date she left tatted on her on the 2 year anniversary (14-11-23). She's 60 btw.
I decided to start an asset management business. I asked my friends, acquaintances, associates, and external investors to pool capital to start business.
We successfully pooled ₦2bn.
The range of fees in the asset management space is 1% - 3% of AUM.
So let us say that we managed to grow AUM to ₦20bn, the max revenue to earn is ₦400m. If I take out operating costs (staff salaries, marketing, regulatory costs, tech-related costs, etc.), I end up with how much profit?
The profit margin in the asset management space is 15%-40% (depending on your scale). Let us just call it 20% profit margin.
A 20% profit margin on a ₦400mm revenue is ₦80mm. In a year, that is 4% return on equity (ROE). Lol.
So, I will prepare a deck and slides, and show my investors at roadshows that this is the profitability of the business enterprise that I want them to put capital into?
I will also see 4% ROE and be "encouraged" to invest in technology or be innovative about anything?
A registrar needs ₦2.5bn capital for what? Rating agencies need ₦500m for what?
I would really like to understand the thought-process that went into setting these figures. I do hope these things are not performative, and I want to believe that the regulators indeed have smart people.
Asset and fund managers do not take the risks that banks take. Banks take in liabilities on their balance sheets. They warehouse the funds, and they have the flexibility or freedom to charge higher yields on their risk assets.
Asset managers do not have control over the funds (they are parked with the custodians). So why am I being charged 10% capital on monies that I do not have or use? What is the risk that I am taking on those monies? I am just managing the money on behalf of clients.
These are the sort of policies that makes folks become "creative" about making money which then defeats the entire purpose of the policy.
One of the objectives stated by SEC is to support innovation. On the contrary, this sort of policy will only kill innovation because the barrier to entry becomes high, and smaller businesses are unable to do anything.
The issues in the asset management space, specific to asset managers, are operational, reputational, and governance. Whether ₦500mm or ₦5bn, these risks are the issues.
The problems in the Nigerian capital market are:
✑ Weak supervision
✑ Poor enforcement
✑ Disclosure opacity
✑ Governance failures
Let's deal with these squarely, instead of some performative capital raising ("Let's raise capital because every industry is raising").
I really hope the SEC looks at it again.
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