Nairobi, March 28 -- As a retail or an institutional investor, returns are at the forefront of your thought process. In the environment that we are currently operating in, you probably have found that locally, there may not be as many options as you would have imagined.

From, one entity dominating the bourse supported by mainly five other counters to rising interest rates driving the valuation of your bond portfolio downwards.

Will the derivatives that the NSE give you more options? Maybe, but when realistically? Will your portfolio survive the looming global recession? If it does, to what extent will your real return be positive? (The real return of any portfolio or investment is the return your investment gives you minus the inflation...