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South Africa tentatively rebalances as global economy faces recovery

28 January 2014 | General

A better global growth environment, combined with some current account improvement and better policy implementation, might lead to an improved outlook for the South African economy in the year ahead, especially compared to last year. This was the overall message at Old Mutual Investment Group’s quarterly investment briefing today. However, this improvement remains tentative based on the threat of existing risks being exacerbated by factors such as policy inaction, inflation and rate hikes.

Rand could weaken further against dollar

27 January 2014 | General

Over the past year the South African currency has experienced many headwinds. Many of these resulted from home grown issues like the deteriorating local economic landscape, negative sentiment related to labour strikes, high unemployment coupled with an unsustainable large current account deficit (and the largest compared to other emerging markets). On top of this, the currency also experienced headwinds from the international landscape.

South Africa Faces a Vulnerable Exchange Rate

22 January 2014 | General

At the annual Coface Country Risk Conference in Paris today, the international credit insurer said, after a post-crisis readjustment between advanced and emerging countries, 2014 global country risks are set to change in line with a more classic model.

How will South Africa’s risk profile change in 2014?

21 January 2014 | General

If one had to look at the insurance sector, both in the life sector and in the non-life sector, the South African sector was largely dominated by many themes during 2013 which affected the performance of each sector accordingly. There is a possibility of this carrying over into 2014; however, a big factor to consider this year is that it is an election year. Although the African National Congress is expected to win the election, dissent towards the ruling party’s regime has been shown and it will be interesting to see exactly how much power they are able to exert.

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If you had to hazard a guess, when do you reckon the COFI Bill will be signed into law?

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2026, as promised 2027 looks more likely Impossible to say More consultation needed

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