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Turning to offshore investment

20 August 2013 | General

Jo-Anne Bailey, Sales Director & Country Manager for Africa at Franklin Templeton Investments, explores the growing trend in South Africa of investors turning to offshore investment. She discusses the reasons for this trend, the benefits of investing glob

A Once-a-Generation-European Opportunity?

16 August 2013 | General

Volatile markets make for an interesting sort of litmus test of investor mettle. It’s easy to parrot quotes like the late Sir John Templeton’s famous line, “To buy when others are despondently selling and to sell when others are buying requires the greate

Sanlam Investment Management commentary on ASISA quarter two unit trust statistics

13 August 2013 | Unit trusts

“In light of South Africa’s notoriously low savings rate, strong unit trust flows in the second quarter of 2013 could certainly be viewed in a positive light. The quarter saw a total netflow of R54,2-billion into South African unit trusts. However, while

The lost art of investing

06 August 2013 | General

‘We don’t know how to buy stocks by metrics. We know that Burlington Northern will have a competitive advantage in years; we don’t know what the heck Apple will have. You have to understand the company and its competitive positions. That’s not disclosed b

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

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Human first always Not a chance Possibly maybe Yes, but reimagined

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