Investments

Davos pledge for global ESG standards should extend to cities

South Africa’s capital markets still a cut above the rest

South Africa’s fall to third place in RMB’s 2020 Where to Invest in Africa report reflects the country’s constrained levels of growth, but the report also highlights that it remains Africa’s bastion of a well-developed financial and capital market.

Counting the cost of catastrophe says Old Mutual Wealth

The continued rapid spread of the Wuhan coronavirus – which goes by the technical name of 2019-nCov – is still dominating the headlines and markets have predictably been under pressure over the past few weeks. This raises a number of important questions, including how we should think about potentially disastrous events in an investment context.

Investec launches South Africa’s first structured product that addresses environmental sustainability

The drive to protect the planet and to make sure human development is done in an environmentally sustainable way is already becoming one of the key issues of the 2020s.