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Investing in volatile markets

01 December 2022 | General

Over the past few years, the world has fundamentally changed. We are liv¬ing through a pivotal time in history having navigated a global pandemic, heightened geopolitical uncertainty, and volatile financial markets, and witnessed the end of a 40-year period of declining interest rates.

Achieving investment success beyond the snow globe

01 December 2022 | General

The year to date has certainly tested the resilience of investors, and there is no sign that the current market volatility is about to abate.

Investors go multi-asset-everything as 2022 equity returns fizzle

01 December 2022 | Economy

The flow of funds into, out of and through South Africa’s collective investment schemes (CIS) industry offers many ‘tells’ about investor behaviours and sentiments. For this reason, the quarterly CIS statistics published by the Association for Savings and Investment South Africa (ASISA) always make for interesting reading. Unfortunately, the first observation that can be drawn from the 30 September 2022 numbers is that financial market returns have, on average, been rather lacklustre of late. Why do we say that?