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21 Oct 2021

The world will change, but this message won’t

By Staff Writer

At the beginning of 2020, not knowing what lay ahead just a few months later, we put up a billboard in Pretoria, on Solomon Mahlangu drive, with a simple message: “When the world changes, your investment goals shouldn’t.”
02 Sep 2021

Why past performance is no guarantee of future performance

By Staff Writer

“Past performance is no guarantee of future performance,” has become an axiom of the investment industry. Yet too often, novice investors use positive returns in one financial year as a harbinger of anticipated growth for the next. The constant cycle of chasing past wins is a volatile one that does not account for a myriad of other factors, which influence investment outcomes.
10 Jun 2021

Sharing Alpha releases updated list of top rated funds

By Staff Writer

Fund selectors are asked to rate the funds based on their expectations in terms of the fund's chances of outperforming in the future. The 3 parameters on which the overall rating is determined are factors that are expected to influence future performance:
11 Apr 2021

SharingAlpha releases updated list of top rated funds

By Staff Writer

Fund selectors are asked to rate the funds based on their expectations in terms of the fund's chances of outperforming in the future. The 3 parameters on which the overall rating is determined are factors that are expected to influence future performance:
27 Mar 2020

COVID-19 - FSCA gives financially distressed employers breathing space

By Janice Roberts

Employers in financial distress as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and unable to pay their full contributions to employee retirement funds have been given a temporary reprieve.

29 Jul 2018

Bringing up an equity child

By Janice Roberts

By Peter Armitage, CEO, Anchor Group. Just as the journey of parenting human beings has been, it’s been a thrilling, challenging and fulfilling experience directing the growth of one of my non-human children – the Anchor BCI Equity Fund. Five years into this journey, the fund is the top-performing fund* since inception, in a crowded...
09 Apr 2018

Sanlam Private Wealth funds scoop top accolades in London

By Janice Roberts

Two of Sanlam Private Wealth’s international funds have walked off with prestigious industry awards in London over the past few weeks. The Sanlam Strategic Bond Fund scooped two Thomson Reuters Lipper Fund awards, while the Sanlam Global High Quality Fund scored a hat-trick, with accolades at this year’s Investors Choice Awards, City of London Wealth...
12 Apr 2017

PSG Flexible Fund soars beyond R10 billion

By Janice Roberts

The flagship fund of PSG Asset Management, the PSG Flexible Fund, recently surpassed the milestone of R10 billion in assets under management (AUM).
04 May 2016

Using rolling returns over a three- to five-year cycle

By Janice Roberts

With the myriad of data available to investors when selecting which fund best suits their investment profile, it is difficult to know which data point to use. Rolling returns, however, give a clearer track record of how a fund has performed and potentially how it will perform in the future.
25 Apr 2016

GCR accords stable outlook for STANLIB funds

By Janice Roberts

Global Credit Ratings (GCR) accorded national scale fund ratings of AA+(ZA)(f) to the STANLIB Corporate Money Market Fund, and a rating of AA-(ZA)(f) to the STANLIB Extra Income Fund. Both ratings were accorded Stable outlooks.
09 Dec 2015

Ashburton Investments buys Atlantic Asset Management

By Janice Roberts

Ashburton Investments this week announced that it will acquire 100% of boutique Cape Town fixed income asset manager Atlantic Asset Management.  Ashburton Investments’ CEO Boshoff Grobler explains the significance of the deal.