At the 11th yearly conference, Investiture of Fellows, Inductions of Associates, and yearly General Meeting of the Institute of Capital Market Registrars , held in Lagos at the weekend, Adedipe argued that major sectors that constitute nation’s economic growth are not represented in the capital market.
The figures are low when compared to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange with a total capitalisation of $1.06 trillion, representing over 235 per cent of the country’s GDP and over 370 listed companies. Adedipe said: “In fact, movements in the market and the economy are no longer synchronised because they do that for just a while and thereafter they diverge. I found a very weak correlation between the movement’s growth of the major metrics in our stock market, with the growth of our GDP with very weak and negative covariance.
Speaking on the topic, “Role of Digital Technology in the Nigerian Capital Market”, the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Exchange Limited , Temi Popoola, said the country and the globe have made huge progress in digitalisation.