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The ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ nature of resource shares

09 April 2010

The JSE All Share index is dominated by resource counters. The country’s top ten companies (by market capitalisation) include five commodity plays: BHP Billion (R548.834bn), Anglo American (R393.478bn), Sasol (R184.558bn), Anglo Platinum (R166.007bn) and

Too late to board the flight to safety

19 March 2010

When things go wrong in equities, investors latch on to income as their ‘flight to safety’. This was the view expressed by Arno Lawrenz, Atlantic Asset Management at a Momentum Wealth Presentation held in Johannesburg recently. Although cash and bond inve

The banking sector has to meet challenges head on

05 March 2010

In 2006 the Competitions Commission launched an investigation into bank charges. Their voluminous findings were distributed widely and critically received by the media and consumer rights bodies. Little has changed since – that is – until comments in Fina

Another year, another budget

19 February 2010

Budget speech 2010 has come and gone. On Wednesday, 17 February 2010, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan presented his 30-page prepared speech to Parliament. Gordhan’s opening paragraphs suggested his budget would be an upbeat one. He acknowledged the “inimi

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