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Download Performance Update                We have just completed two weeks under alert level 4 lockdown. Although it seems that the countrywide infection rate has peaked, President Ramaphosa has extended the restrictions for a further…
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Download Performance Update                The rebound in asset prices that ensued following the US elections in November boosted South Africa’s terms of trade, ensuring another sequential current account surplus (of 5.0%/GDP) in the first…
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Download Performance Update                It has been an exciting year so far, with numerous bouts of volatility as US nominal and real yields rose sharply amid expansionary US fiscal policy and strengthening macro data.…
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Download Performance Update                You would be forgiven for thinking that January was the longest month, ever. Yet, we made it through another lockdown, closed beaches, and even the booze ban. The upside was…
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Download Performance Update                2021 was off to a not-so-roaring start, thanks to resurgent global and domestic Covid infections and three more virulent strains of the coronavirus (in the UK, Brazil and South Africa).…
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Download Performance Update                When we think back to 2020, one thing that will always stand out is COVID-19 and the way this virus changed our worlds forever. It is no wonder that Collins…
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Download Performance Update                Markets have moved from RORO (risk on/risk off) to SOSO (stimulus on/stimulus off) to VOVO (vaccine on/vaccine off). October turned out to be quite an exciting month with strained stimulus…
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Download Performance Update                The past month has been an exciting time for global markets. The initial risk-off in September quickly gave way to a rebound in equities as investors became more comfortable with…
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Download Performance Update                South Africans are celebrating the move to Lockdown Level 2 as the number of new daily Covid-19 infections steadily declines. Yet the risk is that Level 2 might be too…
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Download Performance Update The much-anticipated national elections are over and, thankfully, we will now be spared the vigorous marketing and campaigning by political parties. As anticipated, the ANC won a comfortable majority, albeit less than in the previous election. Yet…
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