Pabina Yinkere, CEO, Norrenberger Asset Ltd talking in Port Harcourt to revive funding curiosity in real merchandise
Norrenberger Asset Administration Restricted has been appointed to handle the Host Neighborhood Improvement Belief (HCDT). This was disclosed to newsmen in an interview in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, by Pabina Yinkere, the Managing Director of the corporate on the finish of a marketing campaign rollout within the oil area.
The Host Neighborhood Improvement Belief (HCDT) is indicated to have a complete dimension of ₦373 billion as of October 13, 2025, which incorporates N125 billion and $168.9 million. This fund is managed by the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Fee (NUPRC) and is presently supporting 536 ongoing neighborhood tasks.
The CEO of Norrenberger stated the South-South is of explicit curiosity to the corporate. “We’re one of many fund managers authorised to handle host neighborhood improvement funds in Nigeria. And by advantage of that, many of those host communities, you realize, are within the Niger Delta. So, very quickly we’ll be beginning our workplace in Bayelsa, Yenagoa. Very quickly, in order that we will serve the oil-producing area of our nation and we might help these folks construct their very own wealth.”
Norrenberger Asset Administration Restricted gives standard and shariah compliant funding services throughout all main asset courses to a various set of institutional, corporates, people and international traders. They provide wealth administration companies equivalent to portfolio administration, funding advisory, mutual funds, training planning, property planning companies, mounted earnings companies and retirement planning.
Yinkere stated Norrenberger Asset Ltd is a SEC-licensed and controlled fund supervisor/monetary adviser with what he known as funding options for everyone. “Mainly, out of your company establishments to your high-net-worth people, and to the retail man on the road.
“We offer funding options for every a type of individuals in order that they will meet their monetary targets, funding goal, and construct wealth for themselves.”
The agency has company headquartered in Abuja. “We have now regional workplaces in Port Harcourt, Lagos, and Kano. Okay, 4 regional head workplaces, that’s for our asset administration enterprise. However from a gaggle perspective, due to our pension and our insurance coverage enterprise, now we have a footprint in each state on this nation.”
The skilled stated the south-south or the Port Harcourt funding zone has suffered some debitating incidents the place traders misplaced big funds. This, he stated has affected their funding urge for food, requiring restore and revival.
He stated: “We’re seeing some curiosity as soon as once more, however I feel for us one of many passions that drive us is to deliver monetary intermediation, to deliver monetary literacy to completely different elements of Nigeria. In order that these folks which are underserved will be served.
“We wish to assist Niger Delta folks decide their monetary future. Should you ignore them, who’s going to deliver that to them? So, that’s one of many causes. We predict, whereas funding and monetary acumen and literacy of this a part of the nation shouldn’t be the perfect, now we have to attempt to spice up it.”
He mentoned the strategies as to teach folks, to empower folks with monetary information, with monetary energy, in order that they will decide their monetary future. “So, that’s what we preach.”
On insurance coverage which appears to be a key want within the south-south as a result of excessive dangers, Yinkere stated; “Sure, now we have a product that has insurance coverage embedded in it. Our product for kids, which we name KidStart. It allows dad and mom and guardians to save lots of for the way forward for their kids and their wards.
“The product has embedded in it an insurance coverage possibility the place the dad or mum or the guardian, who’s the contributor, can take a life insurance coverage coverage on themselves, such that, if something occurs to them or on the unlikely occasion of their demise, the insurance coverage kicks in and provides to the funding that they’ve made in order that the beneficiaries, that are the kids, get the advantage of that.”
He stated nevertheless that Norrenberger wouldn’t delve past that into insurance coverage. “Each firm has their position to play out there. We can’t depart our fund administration enterprise and begin doing insurance coverage. So, there’s insurance coverage for this type of factor. There’s insurance coverage for kidnapping. If any person will get kidnapped, insurance coverage kicks in.
“So, now we have to play the place we’re robust. So, we don’t wish to go into different folks’s companies. Nevertheless, since you are constructing wealth and you might be constructing property with Norrenberger, when any such emergency comes on, you may come and liquidate your funding or use it to fulfill no matter goal that you really want. That’s how far we will take it.”
On merchandise that may provide intervention to prime traders within the occasion of abduction now rampant within the area, Yinkere stated what he understood it was safety in funding.
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“We’re SEC-regulated firm. And in accordance with the SEC guidelines or modus operandi for fund managers, each fund supervisor is required to have a custodian. Custodian banks are the largest banks that may home the funds and property that we handle for our purchasers. So, as a fund supervisor, we don’t preserve one Naira by ourselves. We have now no entry to the cash. All of the monies are stored with the custodian financial institution.
“And for us, our custodian banks are UBA and Zenith Financial institution. These are a number of the greatest banks within the nation. So, we can’t spend cash with out their settlement. They’re additionally regulated by SEC. So, any funding we’re making, they need to additionally be sure that it’s according to SEC regulation earlier than they help it. So, that’s the safety that’s offered for fund administration and asset managers which are regulated by SEC. We have now many individuals on the market that decision themselves fund managers, however they haven’t any license, they aren’t regulated by SEC. Watch out for these form of folks. Cope with solely SEC-recognized, SEC-registered, SEC-regulated fund managers.”
Chatting with newsmen additionally, Ekene Okechukwu, the Regional Head, East of Norrenberger Asset Administration, who covers majorly the South-South Area and Jap Area, talked in regards to the peculiarities of the world.
PH traders should now watch out for Ponzi:
He stated: “This area has had some dangerous or laborious classes to study by way of funding. We’ve had some very, very, dangerous funding outfits that got here up previously like MBA Foreign exchange and one different that got here up Delta State. There have been loads of Ponzi schemes that got here out. And we’ve had our fingers burned. And, you realize, I’ll say that these experiences truly modified the mindset of the area or folks from this area by way of secure funding.
“So, what Norrenberger is bringing to the desk is actually an funding that’s regulated by the Securities and Change Fee (SEC). It means you may truly make investments and go residence together with your two eyes closed. So, we’re altering the funding panorama actually for the area, and we wish to have extra penetration.
As I discussed earlier than, now we have an enlargement plan to develop inside the area, and our aim is to simplify wealth creation and be sure that we deliver revolutionary funding options to the investing public.”
He admitted that almost all traders within the area appear loopy about excessive yielding returns however should be advised that such merchandise carry most dangers. He stated it’s improper for folks to need security and excessive yield on funding at similar time.
“What you’ll usually see in a typical Ponzi scheme association is that they provide promise you heaven on earth. And we function in a market with realities. The cash from traders shouldn’t be meant to be invested in a vacuum. There’s deficit economic system that wants the cash for enterprise enlargement, that wants the cash for working capital, that wants the cash for capital progress and all of that. So, we actually work as an middleman between the excess and the deficit economies.
“This cash we acquire from traders, there’s a market the place we make investments it and provides them the return we promised them. We should give an funding return that’s according to market actuality, we can’t promise unrealistic return on funding, as a result of doing meaning that you’re actually promising the place there’s no market obtainable to offer you that return on funding you give traders.
“So, now we have SEC-regulated devices that we should make investments this fund in, and we’re guided by that via and thru. So, so these alternatives are what give rise to the return we give traders. And even with that, we’re additionally performing above market common. And I feel we’re doing very properly at that.”
Scorching merchandise forward:
Norrenberger officers stated their merchandise are one of many highest yielding ones out there with security in thoughts. They stated; “World spending on synthetic intelligence (AI) is projected to rise sharply via 2026 as tech giants rush to reap the advantages of AI increase that has pushed shares to document highs. A consensus is rising that international AI funding will strategy $400 to $500 billion in 2026, underscoring the substantial enlargement of AI deployment throughout industries and areas.”
Yinkere suggested prepared traders to all the time diversify their portfolios in order that if one thing went improper in a single sector, different portfolios would rescue the investor.
He used that chance to current the 4 funding merchandise Norrenberger created to make traders beneath them smile on a regular basis, equivalent to cash market, greenback fund, Islamic fund, and turbo fund.
He additionally talked about one other known as ‘kickstart’ designed for kids of oldsters that may wish to defend the way forward for their kids with funding packages. He stated the kids can take over the fund on the age 21 however may entry it marginally earlier than that age.
He started by saying that Norrenberger specialised on asset administration, safety buying and selling, digital buying and selling, infrastructure banking, micro finance banking, and so on.
He stated the corporate has over 200,000 purchasers with over N500bn fund and is rated by two credible score companies in Nigeria. He talked about N30bn income and over 700-strong workforce with full registration of the Securities and Change Fee (SEC).
He additionally talked about strict screening of funds making use of to be invested and shortlisting of profitable ones, saying Norrenberger has a observe document within the monetary market and has not skilled any regulatory infraction.
