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ZA180 billion revenue windfall ensures top marks for Budget 2022

25 February 2022 | Straight Talk

The financial press was awash with headlines immediately following the Budget 2022 address, ranging from ‘boring but responsible’ to ‘a feel-good budget’ to ‘something for everyone’ to ‘Fitch pours cold water over budget’. To gauge opinion on the 23 February speech we tuned in to five 30-second sound clips broadcast over Moneyweb.co.za. Imagine our amazement to learn that the average score awarded the Minister of Finance by four economists and one finance editor was a staggering 7.5 out of 10. Wait! What? As a responsible taxpayer who watched the broadcast live, this writer could not agree with this level of post-budget enthusiasm.

What’s inside… FAnews Magazine February 2022

16 February 2022 | The Stage

Our first edition for the year is out… packed with articles you want to read. We have just over 20 000 registered Continuous Professional Development (CPD) users, and with this email we are reminding you to make sure you stay up to date with your CPD hours. We’ve touched on content and issues that are topical and relevant, and ultimately written for you. The articles are written by industry experts and FAnews journalists, so if you have specific issues or questions about anything, please don’t hesitate to get it touch.

Go to the ANT, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise

13 February 2022 | Straight Talk

Nothing illustrates the impact of exponential improvements in technology on the financial services sector than a head-to-head comparison of Bank of America and Ant Group. The former is a US banking heavyweight with around 67 million customers, mostly onboarded after the then 94-year-old business was acquired by NationsBank of Charlotte in 1998. Ant Group, meanwhile, is rooted in China. It is an affiliate of the Alibaba Group, which holds a host of financial services brands, including Alipay, with has gained more than a billion active users in around 19 years.

French writer predicted SA’s current economic malaise a whopping 173 years ago

28 January 2022 | The Stage

There is something melancholic about listening to economic and political analysts juxtaposing your country’s myriad socioeconomic failings with their well-intentioned, but often-distorted, imaginings for the future. As an author and writer focused on the insurance and investment worlds, I frequently get to be a ‘fly on the wall’ in rooms full of intellectuals as they dip into South Africa’s ‘cauldron full of worries’ to dissect some or other par-boiled issue. No frogs here, people!

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Five flags to plan your future by … with thanks to scenario planner, Clem Sunter

14 January 2022 | The Stage

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The #1 question clients ask their brokers

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Onus of proof on a balance of probability

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China’s common prosperity obsession leaves investors in a return twilight zone

30 November 2021 | Straight Talk

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