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Infrastructure investing in SA vs. the rest of the continent

29 June 2022 | General

It’s a well-known fact that infrastructure investment is urgently needed across Africa, including in South Africa. The African Development Bank estimates that the continent’s infrastructure financing needs will be as much as $170 billion a year by 2025, with an estimated gap of around $100 billion a year.

Ongoing policy failures, soaring inflation and a generation of investors with a skewed sense of risk

29 June 2022 | General

Moral hazard has skewed retail investors’ approach to risk, with the view that central banks and policy makers always ride to the rescue of investors, providing portfolio safety nets, with cheap money and loose monetary policy and that is a high-risk strategy.

Making sense of potentially confusing investment concepts

29 June 2022 | General

With so many different messages out there when it comes to investing, it’s easy for the average person to feel overwhelmed and slightly confused.

Systematic investing in practice: using quantitative investing tools to achieve optimal outcomes

28 June 2022 | General

The number one priority for a fund manager is identifying appropriate investments and combinations of these that offer the best risk-return profile for the fund managed. This challenge has and continues to face all portfolio managers, even when investing in income-generating assets, which are generally viewed as low-risk investments.

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

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