Stock market investors up by 132pc

“So this competition, coupled with other programmes, has helped to double DSE investor base from about 200,000 in August last year to about 465,000. There are also over 120,000 others who have invested with the Unit Trist of Tanzania collective investment schemes,” said CMSA director of research, policy and planning, Mr Nicodemus Mkama.

What you need to know:

  • The Capital Markets and Securities Authority (CMSA) and the DSE have been undertaking several stock market awareness creation campaign programmes that have seen the number of investors at the DSE rising from about 200,000 in August last year to the current 465,000, according to the CMSA director of research, policy and planning, Mr Nicodemus Mkama.