By Neels van Schaik, PSG Asset Management Whether you are a passive shareholder in a listed company or actively engaged in running your own business, there is one concept that focuses the mind of any capital provider, that being growth! Expectations of growth determine which projects or new ventures will be allocated capital and which [...]
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Local fund managers view 2012 in slightly more bullish light
Local fund managers are more bullish about the prospects for the South African equity market, driven largely by optimism for financials and resources. This is one of the general findings of Investment Solutions’ first fund manager survey for 2012. The survey, conducted amongst 15 South African fund managers every six months, aims to gauge fund [...]
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Financial services industry grapples skills shortages and regulation
Worldwide, the financial services industry is facing a severe shortage of critical skills, according to a report issued today (15 February 2012) by Professional Services Firm PwC. Nearly half of the industry leaders taking part in the PwC 15th Annual Global Survey believe that the limited availability of key skills is a serious threat to [...]
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Update on world’s economic headache – Greece
The world remained on the edge of its seat last week as Greek officials continued to play cat and mouse with the ‘troika’ (ECB, IMF and European Union). “Markets were eagerly awaiting the outcome of this now global issue, as it affects all investment parties in some manner or other,” says Paul Stewart, managing director [...]
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2012 – starts off with a bang
With the dawning of the new year, various forecasts of market professionals on what the investment world has to offer for 2012 began to appear. “On the back of mainly the European debt crisis, most of the expectations were for rather benign returns from equity markets,” says Luigi Marinus, head of research at Plexus Asset [...]
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Car jamming – who pays
Most insurance policies do not pay for theft from vehicles unless there is evidence of forced or violent entry. The silver lining though is that some insurers will cover losses resulting from the use of jamming devices. Given fierce competition in the South African insurance market this may herald an industry-wide shift towards the inclusion [...]
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Flooding claims can be seamless
The recent flooding disaster in January in and around Hoedspruit, located in the Limpopo region, after 300mm of rainfall was recorded over a 48 hour period, has resulted in a humanitarian crisis, but also millions of Rands of damage to both commercial and residential property in the region. In recognition of this crisis and in [...]
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2012 Financial Planner of the Year competition open for entries
The Financial Planning Institute of Southern Africa (FPI) has opened their call for entries for the 2012 Financial Planner of the Year competition. The award recognises the top professional financial planner and also honours outstanding financial planners from across South Africa. The FPI Financial Planner of the Year Award is the highest accolade a professional [...]
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Just short of R1 trillion
The local Collective Investment Schemes (CIS) industry grew its total assets under management by R69-billion to R996-billion in 2011, narrowly missing the R1-trillion mark. Releasing the 2011 Domestic and Foreign CIS statistics at a media conference in Johannesburg yesterday, Leon Campher, CEO of the Association for Savings and Investment South Africa (ASISA), said while the [...]
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Latest Issue - 31 January 2012
In This Issue:
- Prospects for 2012
- New Retirement Thinking?
- Reasons to be concerned about Europe
- Short-term insurance survey
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Newsletter 16 February 2012: Investing in uncertain times
In today’s newsletter we share some strategies investors can follow when investing in uncertain times. Uncertain times require a focus on the basics By Nic Andrew, head, Nedgroup Investments Negative news headlines, enormously complex macro-economic issues, extreme market volatility and often contradictory comments from the experts… There are an almost overwhelming number of factors influencing [...]
