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Lazy investing costing you thousands a month

13 October 2015 | General

There’s a bigger threat to your long-term investment build-up than market movements. It’s called…. YOU!

Equities: Hitting a Chinese Wall

13 October 2015 | Equities

A last-ditch volte-face agreement by Greece to EU austerity measures and disappointing Chinese manufacturing data coupled with economic contraction from Russia, Brazil and South Africa provided multiple risk-off triggers for market participants this quarter. The People’s Bank of China also fired the currency war bazooka, which led to a rout in both emerging market and commodity producing country currencies and a sharp retracement of the Shanghai Composite by over 22% this quarter alone. Global equities experienced their worst quarter in four years, down close to 10%. Disappointing global growth, falling commodity prices, extreme market whiplash and a weakening rand all contributed to a sharp pull-back of the JSE this quarter, with emerging markets seeing half a trillion dollars in capital flee out – the first net outflow from emerging economics since the 1980s. Our estimate of fair value for the rand is between 10.50 and 11.50 to the US dollar. The SARB added fuel to the fire by hiking rates despite an SA economy which contracted in the second quarter (qoq) with macroeconomic imbalances not being helped by mining and manufacturing sectors hamstrung by load shedding and labour unrest.

Private equity a favoured investment route to African growth

12 October 2015 | General

Great investment opportunities in Africa are more likely to be found in the less common private equity asset class.

JSE launches new FTSE/JSE Responsible Investment Index Series

12 October 2015 | General

Today, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, Africa’s leading exchange, launched its new index series, the FTSE/JSE Responsible Investment Index Series, in partnership with FTSE Russell. The new index series replaces the JSE’s SRI Index and reflects the JSE’s commitment to advancing corporate sustainability practices.

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

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