Investments

How frequently should you monitor your investment?

You decided to invest. Mapped out your goals and developed an investment strategy to help realise those goals. Setting your investment plan into motion can be exciting and you might find yourself eagerly, even impatiently, waiting to see it come to fruition. But as the old saying goes, “a watched pot never boils”.

Banks’ collapse sparks new active-passive debate

The asset managers presenting to the 2023 Investment Forum event in Cape Town and Johannesburg, early-March 2023, had to make some quick ‘tweaks’ to their presentations as news of the SVB Bank and Signature Bank failures in the US brought back memories of the 2008-9 Global Financial Crisis (GFC). One of the presenters who was anxiously checking market data as he stepped up to the Investment Forum stage was Duncan Artus, Chief Investment Officer at Allan Gray, who set out to answer whether investors rather than central banks needed to ‘pivot’ in response to high inflation and rising interest rates.

PPS Investments: CPI for February 2023

Consumer price inflation increased by 7.0% year-on-year in February 2023, slightly up from the 6.9% year-on-year print in the previous month.

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