Investments

As easy as pi trillion in AUM

As the world continues to go mad all around us, with China still insisting on city-wide lockdowns in response to the nth wave of coronavirus and Ukrainian citizens cowering in apartment blocks and subway stations as Russia bombs them, the South African Collective Investment Schemes (CIS) industry has steadily ticked up to R3.14 trillion in assets under management. This, for those among you who took high school science, is also the start of the mathematical ratio pi, 22/7 or 3.14159265359 etc. For further education, pi represents the relationships between a circle’s circumference and its diameter.

Economies at a glance - March 2022

SNG Grant Thornton Report Spells Bumpy Year Ahead for South African Mid-Market Businesses

Despite encouraging signs of recovery in the world economy, including gains in South Africa’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2021 and the easing of COVID-19 restrictions, tough times still lie ahead for the country, according to research by global accounting firm Grant Thornton.

The democratisation of private assets: how will it work?

Demand for private assets keeps rising, and not just among the traditional institutional investors. We look at how private markets are “democratising”.