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Investing with uncertainty and volatility

04 October 2011

Cast your minds back 12 to 18 months and the economists were all discussing the likely “shape” of the global economic recession. Their favourite “prop” was the alphabet, and they spent hours debating weather markets would exhibit the V-shape, U-shape or d

Challenging conventional investment thinking

20 September 2011

How do you stay ahead of the herd when it comes to stock market investing? To find out we attended the RE: CM Shifting Perspectives event, held at the beautiful Summer Place conference centre in Johannesburg, 14 September 2011. RE: CM is a privately owned

The country that missed the resources train

05 September 2011

South Africa has the richest mineral resources endowment in the world, but has underperformed other resource-rich countries over the past decade! This was the view expressed by Sanlam Investment Management (SIM) resources specialist, Barend Ritter, at a m

Rather the devil you know... South Africa is not ready for this grand design!

18 August 2011

National Health Insurance (NHI) is coming. Despite serious concerns over infrastructure, human resources and affordability, government is pushing ahead with a “financing system that will make sure that all citizens of South Africa (and legal long-term res

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

Answer

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

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