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01 Mar 2022

How Covid-19 reaffirmed the most important investment lesson – stay the course and weather the storm

By Staff Writer

Investors that switched from property funds that delivered a -36.6% return amid a tumultuous property market, missed the 36.9% positive return in 2021.
25 Feb 2022

Investment implications: Russia-Ukraine conflict

By Staff Writer

Franklin Templeton’s Emerging Markets Equity team provides insights on the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
22 Feb 2022

Can value continue outperforming growth, or are growth shares moving into 'value' territory?

By Staff Writer

While value investing had a good run in January and it’s tempting to follow the money, the reality is that the pure forms of both investing styles – value and growth – have their drawbacks.
17 Feb 2022

What investors can expect in the Chinese markets this year

By Staff Writer

With uncertainty hanging over markets, investors need to tread carefully in the Year of the Tiger. But as Ninety One’s investment professionals explain, there are abundant opportunities too. They share their outlooks for China.
17 Feb 2022

What is happening in global markets and why are equity markets so expensive?

By Staff Writer

The fact that both very low cash yields and bond yields are the status quo has meant that investors have been pushed towards riskier assets such as stocks, which seemingly continue to go up and up.
11 Feb 2022

Adjusting investment expectations for 2022

By Staff Writer

The reality is that Covid-19 is still very much part of our lives, and in all likelihood will keep making the headlines in 2022.
27 Jan 2022

Little sense pitting value against growth – they perform different roles

By Staff Writer

To compare the merits of value investing over growth investing is to ignore their fundamental differences. One is tactical, while the other is structural.
24 Jan 2022

Lifting of local lockdown sees rise of the ‘risk investor’

By Staff Writer

As a direct result of the lifting of lockdown, more than a third of SA wealth investors are exhibiting riskier investment behaviour.
20 Dec 2021

Global and thematic equities outlook for 2022

By Staff Writer

Alex Tedder, Head and CIO of Global and US Equities at Schroders believes pricing power will be key for global shares in 2022.

14 Dec 2021

Taking stock and reflecting on the year that was

By Staff Writer

At face value, it appears as though markets have performed well, however, broadly speaking there have been some bad landmines.
02 Nov 2021

Three things that impact market efficiency

By Staff Writer

As a trader, you need to be aware of certain notions in the markets. These notions can affect your trading significantly, especially during volatile market conditions. To make better trading decisions, the three concepts you need to be aware of are liquidity, slippage and swaps.
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.”