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Asset management: where bigger isn’t always better

12 January 2015 | Asset Management

In the world of asset management, the size of a firm can be inversely proportional to its investment agility and investment universe.

Investment outlook – major themes for 2015

12 January 2015 | General

The dawn of a new year brings with it many traditions and so too in the investment world, when strategists, economists and fund managers alike look forward to what might or might not happen in the year ahead.

Market and policy dislocations could peak in Q1 of 2015, warns Saxo Bank

08 January 2015 | General

The world is drastically out of synch both in terms of economic and monetary policy going into 2015 and faces an unprecedented cocktail of geopolitical risks. Expect markets to reach the point of maximum dislocation as early as Q1 of 2015.

December 2014 – etfSA.co.za monthly South African ETF, ETN and Unit Trust Passive Index Tracking performance

07 January 2015 | ETF's (Exchange Traded Funds)

The Performance Survey for the year ended 31 December 2014, is attached. There were difficult trading conditions during the year for many investment markets, with volatility dominating over the past few months of 2014. The FTSE/JSE Top 40 index only returned 9,17% for the full year ended 31 December 2014, bringing to an end the dominant equity markets of the previous two years. However, a significant number of index tracking products produced better performance than the overall market last year, 35 out of a total of 90 passive products, in fact, showing that the correct selection of an index is critical.

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