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Crystal ball investing – Speculation leads to investment loss

24 June 2015 | General

The term “crystal ball investing” appropriately invokes images of smoke and mirrors, charlatanism and faux clairvoyance. None of these has any place in investment practice.

Long-term focus critical when investing amid increased risk

24 June 2015 | General

Global equity markets look set to face a strong headwind as the era of cheap money comes to an end, cautions Coronation Fund Managers.

Reports of the death of value investing have been greatly exaggerated?

23 June 2015 | General

Investors and market participants have lately been asking us whether value investing is dead. While we firmly believe that value investing is alive and well and we are as committed to it as ever, we have seen some value investors starting to change their strategies to other approaches that have delivered stronger performance in recent times. This is not abnormal. Over the years, various value investment managers and their strategies have fallen out of favour from time to time. This is unfortunate as the reality is that over the long term, value investing has proven to outperform other investment approaches.

Staggering growth for SA unit trust industry

23 June 2015 | General

Asisa has just released its Q1 2015 unit trust data and the first thing that strikes you is the staggering growth of the industry. At the end of 2005, the SA unit trust industry’s assets were just short of R250 billion. Now, less than 10 years later, the industry’s AUM has grown sixfold to more than R1.8 trillion!

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