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Download Performance Update                The debate has shifted from the depth of the recession to the shape of the recovery. Notwithstanding the relatively minor risk-off market behavior in recent days, risk assets have largely…
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Download Performance Update                “There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs” – Thomas Sowell South Africa’s policy makers have come to realise that there are no solutions to the Covid-19 pandemic, nor the…
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Download Performance Update                  South Africa has been in lockdown for 25 days with 10 more to come and we all hope that it will not be extended again. Perversely, the more effective…
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Download Performance Update We are usually an upbeat bunch in our monthly communications to clients, but under the current circumstances, it may seem challenging to look for the silver linings. The coronavirus has brought and will continue to bring much…
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Download Performance Update Just as we thought the global economy was turning a corner for the better, Trump almost started World War III. Thankfully, the impact on the oil price and risk appetite was short-lived. However, the Chinese Lunar New…
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Download Performance Update Markets are off to a strong start in 2020, despite persistent uncertainties. This is even more encouraging given that it is off a respectable 2019 performance across most asset classes. Granted, the S&P’s near 27% stood out…
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Download Performance Update And so another decade ends with a year that proved that we continue to live in interesting times. 2019 will be remembered for deals and doves, protests and populism, bailouts and Brexit, Miss Universe beauties and rugby…
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Download Performance Update What a win for the Boks! In our previous review, we highlighted that 12 could be the magic number for SA in the 2019 Rugby World Cup. And so it was, with South Africa scoring two tries in…
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Download Performance Update The number ‘12’ has significance across many religions and belief systems across the world and through the ages. The ancient Greeks had twelve major deities, Zeus and Apollo being two of the more famous ones. Hercules, the…
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Download Performance Update The adage that ‘forecasting is difficult, especially if it is about the future’ can be adapted to explain historical market movements – it is sometimes just as difficult to elucidate why financial markets reacted to news flow…
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