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Dissing Cathie, Man-U and Wall Street analysts in a single AI-focused tech-fund presentation

19 April 2024

You have to congratulate a portfolio manager who disses Cathie Wood, Manchester United and Wall Street analysts in a single presentation. Kudos, therefore, to Richard Clode, co-lead manager at the Janus Henderson Global Technology Leaders Strategy, who achieved this remarkable feat in under 30-minutes at the 2024 Glacier International Seminar, held recently in Pretoria, South Africa.

The elevator pitch: How to read the room and other avoidable faux pas

05 April 2024

There are many ways to deliver a perfect, persuasive elevator pitch and just as many to mess it up. Get the pitch right, and the sky is the limit; botch it, and your aspirations, dreams and hopes plummet down the elevator shaft at 9.8 metres per second or so.

Why the GFECRA raid is little more than putting lipstick on a pig

23 February 2024

There is plenty of pig imagery that one might attach to South Africa’s 2024 National Budget beginning with the writer’s favourite: ‘putting lipstick on a pig’. The phrase is eloquently explained by Oxford Languages as informal slang for making superficial changes to something generally regarded with dislike or disfavour in a fruitless attempt to make it more appealing.

AI aces human creativity; advice professionals next in line?

10 February 2024

The ever-declining number of holdouts who swear they will never let an artificial intelligence (AI) replace them are slowly losing the battle. The uncomfortable truth, dear reader, is that AI is taking over our day-to-day tasks by stealth: yesterday you asked Grammarly.com to check your language use and punctuation; today you ask Chat GPT to write the entire article or Canva.com to generate an image; and tomorrow, well who knows?

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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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Natural catastrophe losses expose protection gap

18 January 2024

Hands up if you remember the “where Lambo” obsession?

13 December 2023

Yes, inclusion will fix our woes; provided we define it correctly

01 December 2023

Jobs remain the missing piece in the financial inclusivity puzzle

20 November 2023

South Africa sinks deeper into a State debt quicksand

04 November 2023

Brokers brace for weather-related premium surges

12 October 2023

A financial journo’s trying tango with writer’s block

08 September 2023

More BRICS in the wall, with apologies to Pink Floyd

25 August 2023

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