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Are your emotions standing in the way of your investment success?

06 June 2018

Thandi Ngwane from Allan Gray explains why we sometimes behave irrationally when it comes to investing and what we can do to manage ourselves better.

Building a better tomorrow with environmentally friendly investment choices

05 June 2018

As worldwide concern around climate change and global warming grows, many South Africans are seeking new and innovative ways of reducing, recycling and conserving to mitigate against the various risks associated with these threats. In response to this trend, local millennial investors - the generation between 18 and 34 years of age - are questioning the role of their investments in addressing these environmental challenges.

The lean years don’t last forever

05 June 2018

Political concerns have dominated markets in recent months. It has mostly been US President Donald Trump throwing his weight around (tariffs, Iran, North Korea), but in the past week Italy has been the source of market unease. The attempt by Italy’s two populist parties to form a government including an anti-euro finance minister was blocked by the Italian president. The issue is not the instability of Italy’s governments. After all, the country has on average changed government once a year since the end of World War 2. The issue is that Italy is now a key part of the Eurozone (its third largest economy, in fact), and any hint that a new government might pull out of the single currency will cause chaos. Unlike ‘Brexit’, where the UK will continue to use the pound once the UK exits the European Union, an ‘Italeave’ or ‘Quitaly’ event would result in the redenomination of all debts, assets and contracts into a new, probably weaker currency.