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SA education impact fund proves to have real impact on matric performance

29 January 2018 | General

The 75.1% pass rate achieved by the matric class of 2017 shows an improvement on the 2016 pass rate of 72.5%. Far exceeding this national average, however, was the 92% average pass rate achieved by 10 of the schools invested in by the Schools and Education Investment Impact Fund of South Africa (Schools Fund). The average bachelor pass rate of the Schools Fund was 42.8%, also exceeding the national average of 28.7%.

South Africa’s response to the Fourth Industrial Revolution – we need private sector input

26 January 2018 | Economy

This year, the meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos is giving emerging economies a much more visible platform. A question arising is whether the path to achieve economic growth and stimulus today should follow the same trajectory as it did historically for more developed economies.

Invest in student accommodation and hospitality asset businesses and reduce your tax

25 January 2018 | General

For the first time, South Africans are now able to invest in high quality hospitality and student accommodation businesses whilst reducing their tax liability in the process.

2017 – A year of vindication for risk assets

25 January 2018 | General

There is a powerful proverbial saying which goes as follows, “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone”. Rattled by the difficult 2016 experienced by a large number of investors, both locally and globally, the retail investment market experienced a large rotation from risk assets (equity and property) into cash. The political uncertainty and economic weakness experienced on a global and local front over the period 2015 - 2016 was enough to induce many investors to ‘reject’ their initial investment strategies (many with large exposures to equities) for the safety of cash as they entered 2017.

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