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05 May 2021

Certainty of retirement income in an uncertain world

The main challenge at retirement is to convert savings into a stream of reliable income that will last a lifetime. People who retire have to consider an income level that will cover their immediate income needs, maintain their current standard of living and that will also last for as long as they live.
05 May 2021

Rapidly rising food chain costs raise inflation worries

Rapidly rising agricultural producer price inflation, as reflected in last week’s PPI (Producer Price Inflation) for March, poses a conundrum for food manufacturers about whether to absorb these cost increases or try and pass them on to financially constrained consumers, fanning inflation worries.

05 May 2021

Covid-19 vaccines - who's making money?

The distribution of Covid-19 vaccines is picking up pace globally. US President Joe Biden last month set a new target of 200 million vaccination doses to be delivered in his first 100 days in office. The original target of 100 million was achieved before his sixtieth day in office.
05 May 2021

Taking the pulse for Q2: Rotation rolls on

We see the path out of the Covid-19 shock as a ‘restart’, not a typical business cycle ‘recovery’, and expect stronger growth and negative real yields ahead as the vaccine-led restart accelerates and central banks limit the rise of nominal yields –even as inflation expectations climb.

04 May 2021

The European bond market is modernising

The European bond market is modernising at a rapid pace – and fixed income exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have become the vehicle of choice for this modernisation, says Brett Olson, Managing Director, Head of FI iShares EMEA at BlackRock. This reflects their liquidity, transparency and increasing versatility.
04 May 2021

Why equity investors should always have exposure to the value style

The Momentum Value Equity Fund grew assets under management (AUM) by nearly 70% and was one of a handful of funds to see net inflows for the year ending February 2021. Fund manager Loftie Botha explains the factors behind the fund’s success.
04 May 2021

Investment Note: Infections and Inflections

The world passed two notable Covid-19 milestones in the past week, one good and one grim. The good news is that a billion vaccine doses have been administered.

04 May 2021

BlackRock's Weekly Market Commentary - Inflation: beyond near-term volatility

Inflation looks set to overshoot the Fed’s target as we have expected. Yet we see uncertainties around the near-term persistence of the overshoot as the restart leads to unusual supply and demand dynamics.
04 May 2021

The role of a money market fund

Cash deposits at banks increased substantially during 2020 as clients built up cash reserves, despite low interest rates. The reasons for this are two-fold – those who held on to their jobs spent less on petrol and entertainment costs.

03 May 2021

How to buy and store digital currencies

There are many marketplaces called “bitcoin exchanges” that allow people to buy or sell Bitcoins using different fiat and cryptocurrencies via mobile apps. These exchanges are more relevant for individual or retail investors purchasing up to R1m wort of digital assets. Bitstamp, Coinbase and Kraken are leading global exchanges while Luno and Valr are the two leading South African based bitcoin exchanges.

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