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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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Download Performance Update It has been a tough time in global markets of late and even more so for South African asset prices. Global turmoil and domestic headwinds have battered the rand, equities, and bonds. Yet despite SA’s weakest point…
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Download Performance Update If the global financial crisis has taught us one thing, it is that central banks will do whatever it takes to intervene in economic cycles where necessary to avoid a repeat of what we saw in late…
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Download Performance Update In Finance 101, we learn that investments with higher risk should deliver higher returns, over time, but that the road may be rocky. Investors in South African assets can surely attest to the unevenness of gains and…
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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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Download Performance Update With only 22 days to go until South Africa’s sixth democratic elections and a slew of public holidays, local markets seemed to have gone into limbo. There is a lack of conviction of what the election results…
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Download Performance Update I wanted to use the term “Dead Cat Bounce” but perhaps the cat wasn’t dead in the first place. We all know that equities is a volatile asset class and this was again proven by the moves…
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Download Performance Update Eskom and load shedding are again front and centre with South Africa suffering bouts of no electricity ranging from Level 2 to Level 4 when you could be left in the dark for two periods of 2½…
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Download Performance Update It is getting late in the year to say this, but all the best for 2019! Let’s hope this is a better year than 2018 on many fronts. Although we are only half-way through the first month,…
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