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Don’t simply change your investment strategy

23 May 2016 | General

Investors have been taken on a rollercoaster ride by the markets in times. Dominating the headlines were Black Monday in China, fears of Brazil entering the reces¬sion and a delay in the commitment to raise US interest rates, due to weak global growth.

MAS real estate

20 May 2016 | General

At the time of writing, MAS Real Estate – also known as MAS – was trading at R21.88 on a yield of 3.34%. MAS is currently trading at a ~13% premium to its net asset value per share (NAVPS) of 118.5 euro cents (~R19.35 if converted at spot). An interim distribution of 2.27 euro cents was announced recently. Future growth is expected due to the completion of hotels and retail units at New Waverly, continued acquisitions of accretive income producing assets and the presence of a positive spread between cost of funding and yields of properties acquired.

Franklin Templeton Investments launches feeder funds for SA investors seeking offshore diversification

19 May 2016 | General

Franklin Templeton Investments is pleased to announce the introduction of three local feeder funds together with Boutique Collective Investments (BCI), one of South Africa’s foremost providers of independent collective investment services to wealth and asset management professionals. Franklin Templeton today launched the BCI Franklin Global Real Estate Feeder Fund, BCI Templeton Global Balanced Feeder Fund and BCI Templeton Global Feeder Fund targeted at local investors in South Africa.

Markets may have stabilised but the Reserve Bank finds itself in a quandary

19 May 2016 | Economy

The rand has been relatively settled since the April MPC meeting but it has been a case of dollar weakness as opposed to rand strength. This is due to US corporate earnings being below expectations coupled with low inflation and a mixed jobs report, according to Sanveer Hariparsad, Portfolio Manager at Prescient Investment Management.

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