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23 Jan 2019

SA’s take-home pay was ‘okay’ in 2018

SA’s take-home pay was ‘okay’ in 2018 BankservAfrica’s December data gives 12-month view of take-home pay and private pensions  Take-home pay in 2018 was neither good or bad however the year did prove the most difficult for salary adjustments in the last five years, according to BankservAfrica’s data. Banked private pensions, however, continued to reflect...
23 Jan 2019

What’s the value of a financial adviser?

By Pieter Hugo, MD, Prudential Unit Trusts Let’s face it: many of us are reluctant to use a financial adviser to help us with our investments because we are worried about how much they will charge. We wonder if their input is really worth the fees we’re paying them – we want to know what their true...
23 Jan 2019

D-day is coming for the SA retirement industry: What to consider when selecting a default investment portfolio

Treasury’s new default regulations for retirement funds are set to come into full effect from 1 March this year. Among other things, they will require retirement funds to have a suitable default investment portfolio in place for pre-retirement savings that is not excessively complex or unreasonably expensive.
23 Jan 2019

SA property sector, what happened and where to from here?

AUTHOR: Eugene Visagie, Portfolio Specialist at Morningstar Investment Management. It’s no secret that 2018 was a difficult year for investors with most asset classes declining in value both locally and abroad. However, one asset class does stand out amongst the rest – SA’s listed property sector. The listed property market experienced substantial volatility and share...
23 Jan 2019

Is South Africa ready for a state-owned bank?

Author: Chantel van Zyl, Senior Associate and Rui Lopes, Associate, Banking & Finance Practice Group, Baker McKenzie Johannesburg.
22 Jan 2019

Does absence of many G7 leaders at WEF foretell growing global rifts?

By Nkareng Mpobane, chief investment officer Ashburton Investments. Few better than South Africans know and understand the kind of effort, maturity and concessions required to make any kind of meaningful strides towards transformation.
22 Jan 2019

South African fintech in 2019 – what can we expect?

By Dominique Collett, a senior investment executive at Rand Merchant Investments and the head of AlphaCode Here are my fintech predictions for 2019 based on what we are seeing with our members at AlphaCode which closely track international trends in this space. AlphaCode isthe Rand Merchant Investments  (RMI) incubation, acceleration and investment initiative that identifies,...
21 Jan 2019

The benefits of maximising your RA contributions before tax year end

By Michael Kirkpatrick, Alexander Forbes Business & Distribution Enablement specialist. As the afterglow of the festive season fades, we turn our attention to planning for the next 12 months and beyond. This is a great time to reassess where we are in our journey to financial well-being. One of the key components to this is...
21 Jan 2019

Why equity investors should ignore annual predictions

After reaching new all-time highs in September, the S&P 500 lost nearly 13.5% in the fourth quarter of 2018, while MSCI World ex-USA declined by 11.4%. Equity markets have recovered somewhat from their December lows – the S&P 500 came within a hair’s breadth of official bear market territory (-20%) on 24 December, before rallying...
21 Jan 2019

Davos to start against growing resistance to globalisation 

By Mark Appleton, head of multi asset strategy at Ashburton Investments.  It’s that time of year again where more than 3000 of the world’s top leaders including heads of state, central bankers and representatives from many of the world’s top companies converge on the little town of Davos, Switzerland for the annual World Economic Forum...

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