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Where We’ve Been This Week

10 Sep 2021

Achieving SA's economic growth and employment imperatives

By Staff Writer

The success of an economy can be measured against a simple mantra: Everyone who wants a job, has a job. This is the view of Kevin Lings, chief economist at STANLIB, who spoke on Thursday at the 2021 Allan Gray Investment Summit. The virtual event brought together local and international investment managers and other finance...
01 Feb 2020

Updated financial planning handbooks released

By Janice Roberts

Keeping up to date with legislative and case law changes in the highly regulated financial services industry can be challenging.Professionals need to make effective financial decisions, with a myriad of implications, while ensuring regulatory compliance and keeping current.

18 Dec 2019

Old Mutual, building better futures for all stakeholders everyday!

By Janice Roberts

As a business that has been building better futures for our stakeholders on the continent for almost 175 years, Old Mutual is committed more now than ever before to help create the Africa we all deserve.
19 Nov 2019

Investec Asset Management to rename as Ninety One

By Janice Roberts

Investec Asset Management today unveiled its new name and branding, Ninety One, which will be rolled out following completion of the firm’s demerger from Investec Group. The demerger process is on track to take place in the first quarter of 2020, subject to Investec plc and Investec ltd shareholder approvals.
10 Oct 2019

How you can prepare for tougher markets

By Janice Roberts

By: Johanna Kyrklund, Chief Investment Officer and Head of Multi-Asset Investment, Schroders We know that a combination of economic, market and regulation challenges are likely to make navigating the future more difficult than the past. Here, I suggest a way that pension funds can overcome these challenges, based on my experience of multi-asset investing.
20 Aug 2019

Is this market losing its marbles?

By Janice Roberts

By: Lesley-Ann Morgan, multi-asset fund manager at Schroders The chart that caught the eye of the Schroders Multi-Asset Investment team in July shows that the relationship between the ISM Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) and the S&P 500 index has broken down.
01 Aug 2019

Why Income Protection is the foundation of retirement planning

By Janice Roberts

Based on traditional industry practice, the approach to Disability cover has predominantly favoured selling Lump Sum benefits over monthly Income benefits. The stats back this up: 77% of Disability cover sold is a once-off lump sum, as opposed to 23% being Income benefits. That’s according to the True South Disability Study, commissioned in 2017 by...
01 May 2019

Wills, deceased estates and the process that follows

By Janice Roberts

By Peter Armitage, CEO, Anchor Capital.   If a person dies without a will, he/she dies intestate, making proceedings more complicated. It is thus important for your clients to have a will in order for them to bequeath their assets to whom they see fit.
01 Apr 2019

Argument for boutique allocation ‘compelling’

By Janice Roberts

By: Peter Armitage, CEO, Anchor. Asset management is a fascinating game with over 200 companies positioning themselves to attract the hard-earned investments of South Africans. Advertising agencies are kept busy, generally briefed to create images of trustworthiness and wisdom. Hundreds of millions of rand are spent conveying these to the SA public. The bulk of the...
01 Mar 2019

A VUCA world

By Janice Roberts

AUTHOR : Peter Armitage, CEO, Anchor Capital  We live in an era of exponential change. The world around us is evolving at a rapid pace, driven by technological innovation, political and social upheaval, and an ever-more-complex regulatory framework. While this is a generalisation, it’s a notion we believe is particularly relevant to the South African...
01 Feb 2019

Global equity markets: What's in store for 2019

By Janice Roberts

2018 was the S&P 500’s worst year (-6.2% YoY) since 2008, while the MSCI World Equity Index dropped 10.4% YoY. For the first time in years, all major global asset classes produced negative real returns. Emerging markets (EMs) bore the brunt of the risk-off environment, with the JSE All Share Index closing 2018 with a...
03 Dec 2018

Does tax really matter when making investment decisions?

By Janice Roberts

Tax rates have been rising for several years now. Personal tax rates have gone up, and even structures such as trusts and companies are now heavily taxed in their own right.
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