Explore the Category
South African retail investors and savers are clamouring for the highest possible yield at the lowest possible risk. At the same time, they want greater flexibility, even in long-established product categories they know and trust such as fixed deposits.
Africa is now being termed the final frontier and a number of South African and international corporates are expanding into the continent. With the region’s population growing rapidly and the United Nations (UN) forecasting that 22% of the world’s inhabitants will be living in the region by 2050, Africa’s geographical and market-growth potential has become evident.
Uber, the on-demand transport business, is now the world’s most valuable travel start-up, valued at more than $40 billion. In fact, it has the potential to become the most highly valued private company in the world. All of this with no fleet of its own.
Fund managers are always on the lookout for pockets of excellence that have the potential to generate significant alpha for the funds that they manage. But since the global financial crisis, this has become harder to achieve as the market has proved to be volatile in its uncertainty at times.
Do you think short-term insurance broking will survive the AI plus humanoid robotics age?