DAR ES SALAAM, Aug. 18 -- LAST week, at the Julius Nyerere International Convention Centre (JNICC) in Dar es Salaam, we officially launched two new investment products into the Tanzanian market: The Timiza Plus Fund and the Zan Timiza ETF.

Both opened for public subscription on the same day, addressing a question we have asked since launching our first scheme, the Timiza Fund, in May 2024: How can we make it easier for ordinary Tanzanians and East Africans to participate in capital markets rather than watch from the sidelines?

That question was also the theme of the panel we convened at the launch, “Democratising Capital Markets in East Africa,” which brought together voices from Financial Sector Deepening Tanzania, investme...