By Mark Saunders, acsis Institutional Asset Consultant Online dictionary, Wikipedia defines panic as “a sudden sensation of fear which is so strong as to dominate or prevent reason and logical thinking, replacing it with overwhelming feelings of anxiety and frantic agitation consistent with an animalistic fight or flight reaction. Panic may occur singularly in individuals [...]
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Control the Controllables
By Mark Cliff, PSG Asset Management Anyone with one eye on equity markets will be aware that there have been significant levels of volatility in these markets across the world and some pretty ugly draw-downs in the past few months. March was nasty, May and June were no joy-ride and August was downright horrible. [...]
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Look at entry points into equities as volatility subsides
With the end of the year nearing at a stiff rate of knots, it seems the troika (European Central Bank (ECB), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Commission (EC)) also wants to go on early leave and put the Eurozone financial crisis to bed sooner rather than later. “German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President [...]
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Investing during the age of turbulence
The past few weeks have seen significant market volatility across the globe – leaving many trustees and members in a state of confusion. However, trustees can protect themselves and their members from significant financial loss by paying close attention to the details of their particular fund. This is according to Windall Bekker, Head of Investment [...]
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Investors should ‘prep’ portfolios for profound US fallout
America should brace itself for the next liability-related negative event – and when this happens, it is likely to have a “profound” fallout. That is according to former Harvard Business School Professor André Perold. Perold, a South African who has become an esteemed financial expert in the US, will give the opening keynote address at [...]
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Tax Guide 2012
Latest Issue - 30 April 2012
In This Issue:
- Local and offshore ETFs
- Why stock selection is key
- Medical Survey - the cost of healthcare
- New player in life insurance market
Newsletters
Newsletter 17 May 2012: Lump sum versus debit order, 3 essentials for a confident investor
In today’s newsletter we look at investing with a lump sum or regular contributions – how do they stack up against each other? We also share three investment tips to cope with uncertainty. Being right about muddle-through hasn’t made investing any easier Most predicted that politically and often economically the year 2012 would be a [...]
