The closing days of 2010 saw a roller-coaster ride for a rampant Rand which broke the R7 to the United States dollar mark and kept gaining until it reached R6.66. While the dollar has regained some of its losses, the Rand nevertheless remains at strong levels, trading at around the R7 mark. The effect of [...]
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Playing Fair in 2010: The Ethics of Relationship Building
Relationship building by any other name… the fine line between gifts and just plain bribes. Without doubt, the hottest ticket in town next July will be one to the final match of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™, preferably with a limo drive from a fancy hotel where the lucky ticket holder is booked to stay [...]
How to promote a savings culture in SA
South Africans have long saved too little and while there has been much debate as to why; one of South Africa leading asset managers has proposed five actions that they believe would be constructive in developing a savings culture. Derrick Msibi, Managing Director of Investment Solutions, a multi-manager that overseas 1900 retirement funds representing over [...]
Business needs to embrace its own strategy to succeed
- Executives use platform to discuss the failings of the traditional “strategy” “Strategy is still locked in the cupboard and treated like a closely guarded secret” was the view of the panel at a recent Executive Insight Forum, hosted by Visolution Management Consultants at the Radison Blu in Sandton. The attendees of the forum had [...]
Exposing the Myths about Fraud
A 150 year prison term and 170 billion dollars in restitution: that was the penalty that befitted the greatest financial fraud in history. And yet we will forget about Bernie Madoff as easily as we have forgotten about most of the frauds of history. Maybe because it’s not something we really want to think about, [...]
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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 [...]
