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SA private equity resilient amid volatile financial market conditions

11 February 2016 | Equities

With investors searching for yield amid global market volatility and slowing economic growth, the performance of South African private equity continues to highlight the benefits of including this asset class into a diversified institutional portfolio.

The fund that’s one of a kind

10 February 2016 | General

The SIM Global Equity Income Fund was launched in September 2012 to offer investors the opportunity to invest in a fund that strives to deliver an attractive and growing annual dividend income stream by investing in global shares. At the same time it pursues real capital growth on a rolling three-year basis. Given the extremely low interest rates and bond yields available in most of the world, funds like this are very popular overseas, particularly in Japan and the UK. Being locally managed by Denker Capital, this fund is the only one of its kind available to South Africans as a rand denominated feeder fund (the feeder fund was launched in June 2013).

The case for credit

10 February 2016 | General

Whether it is Curro or Calgro, SAB or BHP, Santam or Sanlam, there currently seems to be a general aversion to investing into credit by retail and institutional clients.