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Money Market funds pay out almost R3bn in extra interest in 2016

29 November 2016 | General

In spite of an extremely turbulent and unpredictable year, The South African Money Market fund industry has shown robust growth throughout 2016, providing jittery investors with a safe-haven for idle cash. There has also been a noticeable increase in corporates with surplus cash using money market funds as a parking place to increase yield while retaining same day access to their cash.

A sovereign downgrade: will SA’s crown topple?

29 November 2016 | Economy

On Friday, 25 November Fitch Ratings announced that the outlook attached to its BBB- ratings of SA foreign and local currency sovereign debt has moved from stable to negative, and warned that continued political instability could lead to the downgrade of the sovereign to sub-investment grade. The company expects the political risks facing the country to remain high at least until the ANC’s leadership election in December 2017. Moody’s kept the sovereign rating unchanged at Baa2, two levels above subinvestment grade, with a negative outlook.

Undeclared offshore investments are criminal

29 November 2016 | General

Why the South African investor should take note of the Common Reporting Standards.

2016, a "perfect storm"

28 November 2016 | General

A perfect storm is defined as a rare combination of circumstances which aggravates a situation drastically. Well I think that end 2015 / 2016 was a perfect storm for South Africa. We had, especially at the start of the year, a very rare combination of events for South Africa, all unfortunately bad.

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

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Human first always Not a chance Possibly maybe Yes, but reimagined

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