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Why South Africa’s 3.3% GDP growth target falls short

04 October 2024 | Straight Talk

If you want to compete in track and field in the summer Olympics, you have to achieve a predetermined distance or time; and if you want to pull your country out of the muck and mire of fiscal deficits and spiralling unemployment, there are similar easy-to-define growth hurdles to clear.

Insurance, technology a dual defence against cybercrime

02 October 2024 | Featured Story

The first step in combatting cybercrime is to realise that many of the criminal syndicates involved in this space are run like de facto businesses; they operate from offices with large staff complements, all working long shifts to meet targets. This cold truth was shared in the first part of a double-header presentation on cybersecurity, held at Insure Talk 46, a virtual insurance seminar.

Is it just me, or does this 25 basis point cut feels like a slap in the face?

20 September 2024 | The Stage

After much dithering, the Monetary Policy Committee of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) finally kicked-off South Africa’s interest rate cutting cycle, on 19 September 2024. It was a bit of a non-event , offering a mere 25 basis points of relief to consumers who have had to stomach multiple interest rate hikes since November 2021. To offer a tongue-in-cheek ‘mixed and flipped’ metaphor: This cut was a bit like ordinary consumers creeping 25 basis points forward; but only after having been forced to stagger 475 basis points backwards.

Listen up! Technology is not a quick fix for all of your productivity problems

06 September 2024 | Straight Talk

Are you among the millions who have embraced the mindset that ‘technology cures all ailments? If yes, then walking a few miles in your writer’s shoes might send you in a different direction. The truth is, dear reader, that technology, when hastily or unnecessarily implemented, has the potential to severely constrain productivity. In extreme cases, the latest app or gadget could send your key productivity metrics back to, well, the Dark Ages.

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If you had to hazard a guess, when do you reckon the COFI Bill will be signed into law?

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2026, as promised 2027 looks more likely Impossible to say More consultation needed

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Soft skills the cherry-on-top for advisers, planners seeking next-level sales

23 August 2024 | Straight Talk

Control versus valuation in the financial adviser succession debate

21 August 2024 | Featured Story

What’s inside… FAnews Magazine August 2024

16 August 2024 | The Stage

Health through the decades: Maximise each milestone

30 July 2024 | Featured Story

If you drop the policymaking ball, the courts will decide for you

26 July 2024 | The Stage

Addressing consumer trust in financial services and elsewhere

14 July 2024 | The Stage

Range of living annuity outcomes supports hands-on financial advice through retirement

28 June 2024 | Straight Talk

Horror rape and murder conviction statistics set the scene for SA’s financial crime free-for-all

14 June 2024 | Straight Talk

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