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12 Apr 2016

How to build wealth

This week, we provide some tips from Greg Bradfield, Alexander Forbes Certified Financial Planner, on how to break bad habits and build wealth. Today’s lifestyles are busier than ever before, resulting in bad financial habits and the neglect of important issues which inevitably play an important role in securing financial well-being, especially in retirement years....
12 Apr 2016

Professionals often unprotected against negligence

Statistics reveal that in the UK three quarters of business owners fear making professional mistakes, yet the majority remain both unprepared and unprotected to attend to a compensation claim should it arise. This is according to Gillian Wolman, Head of Litigations at Risk Benefit Solutions (RBS).
12 Apr 2016

Bitcoin and Blockchain - the next major disruptors in the banking sector

On 6 April 2016, U.K. bank, Barclays, announced its ground breaking partnership with Circle, a FinTech company backed by Goldman Sachs. Bitcoin (the internet’s most popular cryptocurrency) and blockchain technology is thus back in the news. However, a plethora of financial markets legislation must be overcome to bring this type of ‘decentralised currency’ to any...
12 Apr 2016

Treasury requests comment on Voluntary Disclosure Programme

On 24 February 2016, the Minister of Finance in his Budget Speech announced the introduction of a Special Voluntary Disclosure Programme to give a further opportunity for non-compliant taxpayers who still have undisclosed assets abroad to voluntarily disclose their offshore assets and income.
12 Apr 2016

Consumer confidence remains at a low level

After plunging from -5 index points in 3Q2015 to -14 in 4Q2015, the FNB/BER Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) recovered some lost ground to -9 in 1Q2016.
11 Apr 2016

Your financial adviser – a trusted partner

In these days of instant gratification, the emphasis is on avoiding the use of ‘middlemen’ even when it comes to the tricky task of planning one’s financial future.
08 Apr 2016

South Africa issues new US$1.25 billion 10-year bond

The Republic of South Africa has successfully priced and concluded a US$1.25 billion 10-year bond issuance in the international capital market, the country’s National Treasury said today in a statement.
07 Apr 2016

Insuring against the unexpected

Life has a way of throwing the occasional curveball, particularly when it comes to your motor vehicle, says Bertus Visser, Chief Executive of Distribution at PSG Insure.
07 Apr 2016

SA’s insurers are having to break away from ‘business as usual’ - PwC

Despite a challenging operating and economic landscape, South Africa’s major insurers produced a positive set of results for the year ended 31 December 2015.
07 Apr 2016

Why inflation targeting is necessary

In this article, Carl Roothman, Sanlam Investments CE of retail business shows that Inflation targeting, though often criticised for stunting economic growth, is very necessary to create price stability which is a requirement for long-term economic growth. High inflation is detrimental to economic growth. It attracts investment to non-productive assets and discourages saving; consumers are...

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