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07 Oct 2020

Not all money market funds are equal

By: Samantha Steyn, Chief Investment Officer at Cannon Asset Managers Money market funds offer a useful parking bay for investors’ cash allocations, allowing you to earn better returns than bank rates with good liquidity. But when it comes to picking money market funds, investors tend to focus on one metric only: yield. By implication, this...
30 Sep 2020

The rise of the millennial female investor

By: Penelope Gregoriou, Technical Investment Analyst, Alexander Forbes Investments Money is a complex and layered thing that is interwoven in every part of our lives. Strengthening our financial position can be as difficult as it is important. For some of us, saving and investing can be a luxury or viewed as too complicated a pursuit...
30 Sep 2020

How to face liquidity risks across alternatives

Alternative strategies, such as hedge funds, are considered to be the liquid end of the alternative-investment spectrum. This is as opposed to privately traded alternative assets, such as private equity and property. However, there are a few issues to bear in mind when looking at the liquidity of alternative investments. Understand the liquidity of your...
30 Sep 2020

Insurers need to move beyond risk and protection

By: Cornel Schoeman, Chief Operating Officer of GENRIC Insurance Company Limited Consumers demand more monetised value and digital convenience Until recently, traditional insurance models have remained remarkably resilient in the onslaught of digital transformation and tech innovation that has disrupted entire industry sectors and upended competitive landscapes.  Enter COVID-19 and a worldwide synchronous pandemic lockdown...
28 Sep 2020

An agile workforce is key to navigating the pandemic

By: Donné Nieman, Commercial Manager at Workforce Staffing Applications for the UIF/Temporary Employment Services (TES) grant to alleviate employee layoffs has closed. But this was always going to be a temporary measure. The long-term implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on our economy will continue to resonate and be a permanent part of the foreseeable future....
28 Sep 2020

The real reason you should be investing offshore

By: Chris Potgieter, Managing Director of Old Mutual Wealth Private Client Securities Discounting for a moment the state of the local economy and one’s particular socio-political view, the key motivation for any investor to invest offshore should be to have appropriately diversified wealth in pursuit of real capital growth at an acceptable level of risk....
21 Sep 2020

Women are lagging in retirement savings and are debilitated by stress

In a recent study of their client base, Momentum Corporate revealed that almost half (41%) of the employees on the FundsAtWork Umbrella Funds are women. With an almost 50/50 gender split across the client base, a one-size-fits-all approach to advice on employee benefits simply won’t cut it. This is according to Shaeera Essop, Strategic Client...
15 Sep 2020

Despite COVID-19, SA investors expect higher future returns

Even as COVID-19 halted the longest economic expansion on record and plunged the world into deep recession, South African investors expect to make an average annual total return of 12.67% – almost 2% higher than the global average predicted returns of 10.9%. This was revealed in the recently released Schroders’ Global Investor Study 2020 –...
15 Sep 2020

Are cryptocurrencies here to stay?

The recent news that cryptocurrency giant, Digital Currency Group, has acquired cryptocurrency exchange company, Luno, has once again highlighted the rise of cryptocurrencies as a possible alternative to the current global financial system. According to Old Mutual Investment Group Director of Investments, Hywel George, Bitcoin, as well as a number of other cryptocurrencies, are looking...
10 Sep 2020

How too much choice is draining your brain

By: Paul Nixon, head of technical marketing and behavioural finance at Momentum Investments From the words of Francis Scott Key that dubbed America “The land of the free”, which stuck, to the unforgettable Mel Gibson monologue where an army of painted Scots were willing to trade their lives for the freedom of generations to come...

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