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Lower inflation improves outlook

29 August 2017

Inflation declined to below 5% for the first time since November 2015. The consumer price index rose by 4.6% in July compared to a year ago, while the comparative figure for June was 5.1% (in January it was 6.6%). Food inflation of 6.8% remains the main contributor to the overall inflation rate, but this too has declined from double-digit rates at the start of the year, and should continue trending lower. Traded maize prices are currently around R2 000 per tonne, about R1 500 lower than a year ago. Global maize prices are also under pressure. Meat prices remain the outlier. Meat inflation has accelerated to 14% as farmers have been rebuilding herds after last year’s drought, reducing supply.

Sasfin Asset Managers launches Opportunity Equity Fund

28 August 2017

Sasfin Asset Managers is pleased to announce the launch of the Sasfin BCI Opportunity Equity Fund. The fund is benchmarked against the JSE All Share Index and is a general equity portfolio with the objective of delivering long-term capital growth by identifying the best investment opportunities in the domestic equity market.

A fresh approach to rethinking investing

28 August 2017

It is often argued that historical investment performance gives no indication of what might happen in the future. However, experience shows that the future will, most likely, fall within the boundaries set by long-term history.

Bitcoin, blockchain and bubbles : cutting through the hype

23 August 2017

Recent Bitcoin mania has raised a heated debate as to what the world’s largest cryptocurrency (by market capitalisation) is actually worth. Until recently Bitcoin garnered attention from mostly computer science boffins and the criminal underworld, but the 350% price rise since the beginning of the year has started turning heads around the world.

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Do you think short-term insurance broking will survive the AI plus humanoid robotics age?

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Human first always Not a chance Possibly maybe Yes, but reimagined

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