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Markets are ruled by fear

23 February 2016 | General

It has been a bear market for most major world indices for some time and added volatility has sent stock markets tumbling. With increased geopolitical events impacting the world, Kokkie Kooyman, portfolio manager at Denker Capital (previously SIM Global) attempts to make sense of what events are impacting institutional investors globally.

Community Property Fund outperforms listed property

22 February 2016 | General

While SA’s listed property sector returned -2.42% for the 12-month period ending January 2016, Futuregrowth Asset Management’s Community Property Fund returned 17.91% for the same 12-month period.

Give me the good news

22 February 2016 | General

Crocodile Harris, Give me the Good News, 1982.

Maximise the benefits of tax-free compound interest for this tax year

18 February 2016 | General

In order to maximise the benefits of tax-free compound interest for this tax year, investors have less than two weeks to consider a lump sum contribution to a tax free savings vehicle. The deadline is the end of February this year if an investor has not yet reached their annual contribution limit, and ideally their retirement annuity has been topped up. Investors may contribute up to a maximum of R30 000 in total for the tax year (and R500 000 over their lifetimes).

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

Answer

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

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