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Risk profiling eases investor fears during current market volatility

26 January 2012 | General

“The world is certainly not in a pretty place at the moment; global economic growth has been revised lower, the European sovereign debt crisis threatens to intensify and widen its net of casualties and the fiscal health of the US remains in a fragile stat

Thriving in volatile markets

24 January 2012 | General

Grant Watson and Saliegh Salaam, co-heads of the Quantitative Investments (QI) boutique at OMIGSA, say that they have found a way of delivering alpha at dramatically reduced volatility. Their managed volatility strategy was pioneered in South Africa by

This is not 2008: Global risks and their local impacts

24 January 2012 | General

According to Johann Els, senior economist at OMIGSA’s Economic Research Unit, South African’s need to brace themselves for yet another year of unbridled market volatility as global events emanating from the north, west and east continue to impact locally.

From 2011 to 2012: What has changed: What has not; and what does it all mean for SA investors?

24 January 2012 | General

What has not changed? Peter Brooke, Head of Macro Strategy Investments (MSI), points out that amidst the global turmoil there have been some constants, and points out that many of the themes they first named in 2010 continued to play out through 2011. ‘

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