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Franklin Templeton Investments launches feeder funds for SA investors seeking offshore diversification

19 May 2016

Franklin Templeton Investments is pleased to announce the introduction of three local feeder funds together with Boutique Collective Investments (BCI), one of South Africa’s foremost providers of independent collective investment services to wealth and asset management professionals. Franklin Templeton today launched the BCI Franklin Global Real Estate Feeder Fund, BCI Templeton Global Balanced Feeder Fund and BCI Templeton Global Feeder Fund targeted at local investors in South Africa.

The Momentum Growth Enhancer gives you unrivalled certainty while enhancing your growth potential

18 May 2016

Caution has been the norm when it came to investment approaches, but Momentum is challenging this convention with a new innovative product that provides a secure return on your investment whilst simultaneously ensuring unlimited upside potential. With the introduction of the Momentum Growth Enhancer, caution has been thrown to the wind. “This new innovative product offering is a game-changer,” states Steven Schultz, head of marketing, Momentum Investments and Savings, “in addition to your initial investment amount being protected against potential losses investors benefit from a minimum return of 25% before tax at maturity.”

Where to for central banks?

18 May 2016

This article serves to justify two points. First, central banks have largely exhausted their capacity to further stimulate the global economy using the current set of tools. And second, while they’re probably reluctant to use them, there are other levers available to be pulled should a new major crisis present itself.

SA credit downgrade – braced for impact

17 May 2016

On 4 December 2015, the international credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) revised SA’s credit outlook to negative. This means there is an elevated chance that S&P’s next credit rating change may be a downgrade. If this happens, the SA government’s long-term foreign currency debt rating will fall one notch below the level at which the debt is rated ‘investment grade’.

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