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Invest in student accommodation and hospitality asset businesses and reduce your tax

25 January 2018

For the first time, South Africans are now able to invest in high quality hospitality and student accommodation businesses whilst reducing their tax liability in the process.

2017 – A year of vindication for risk assets

25 January 2018

There is a powerful proverbial saying which goes as follows, “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone”. Rattled by the difficult 2016 experienced by a large number of investors, both locally and globally, the retail investment market experienced a large rotation from risk assets (equity and property) into cash. The political uncertainty and economic weakness experienced on a global and local front over the period 2015 - 2016 was enough to induce many investors to ‘reject’ their initial investment strategies (many with large exposures to equities) for the safety of cash as they entered 2017.

Sanlam Investments: December market review

18 January 2018

December was another eventful month on the financial calendar and the year 2017 did not go down quietly. An important driver of global markets’ strong growth in recent months has been the expectation of the implementation of President Trump’s tax reform. On 19 December the US tax bill, which will cut corporate taxes to growth-friendly levels and temporarily lower individual taxes, was approved by the Senate. Subsequently, the Dow Jones set a new record at 24 837.51.