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Why listed property appeals

30 January 2015 | General

Boutique investment management firm, Metope Investment Managers, launches its listed property unit trust offering to the investing public on 2 February 2015. Metope is a privately owned independent firm with assets under management of more than R2.4-billion. It has successfully managed segregated institutional listed property mandates for more than seven years and has now teamed up with MET Collective Investments to offer the investing public the same investment management capability.

Weighing the odds of compromise in Greece, and the “Grexit”

30 January 2015 | General

The victory of the Syriza party in Greece removed one market uncertainty, but created many others. Three professionals from Templeton Global Equity Group™, Norm Boersma, Cindy Sweeting and Heather Arnold, offer some of their initial thoughts on whether the new government can reach a compromise with creditors and still remain in the eurozone.

Headwinds or tailwinds for fixed income investors

29 January 2015 | General

The US economic picture remains relatively upbeat in comparison with some other parts of the globe that are confronting somewhat more challenging conditions. While the eurozone has struggled to tackle its problems and Japan has undertaken unprecedented stimulus measures, the US Federal Reserve (Fed) has determined that the US economy is healthy enough to end its six-year quantitative easing (QE) program.

QE train arrives at Eurozone — finally

27 January 2015 | General

The European Central Bank’s (ECB’s) plan to purchase at least €1 trillion in bonds, referred to as quantitative easing (QE), represents a big leap forward. I think it is a sizable amount of money. The plan demonstrates that the ECB not only talks, it also acts, which is important for market psychology.

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