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30
Nov
2025

Sinking Funds Demystified

In the ever-evolving landscape of personal finance and wealth management, investors are faced with an increasingly wide array of choices. In South Africa, the investment universe has ...
30
Oct
2025

3% Inflation Could Change Everything

The South African Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) recently lowered interest rates in line with expectations but commented that they were now aiming for the lower end of ...
31
Aug
2020

The K-shaped Recovery

This has been a very clear K-shaped recovery. The biggest and wealthiest have been on a clear path toward recovery. Meanwhile, for most small businesses and those worst off, things have ...
31
Mar
2020

Dreaming of a Sovereign Wealth Fund

President Cyril Ramaphosa announced during his State of the Nation address in February 2020 that South Africa intends to establish a Sovereign Wealth Fund. The immediate reaction has ...
31
Jul
2018

Business structures matter in asset management

In a recent article in FT Adviser, Rory Maguire discusses how the business structures of asset management companies drive behaviours and affect client outcomes.
26
Mar
2018

Zuma exit – the end of an error, but is it the dawn of an ethical era?

Cartoonist Zapiro described Jacob Zuma's long awaited exit as President of the country as "the end of an error". But does this mean that in South Africa we can anticipate the dawn of an ...
7
Dec
2017

Enron, KPMG…what can we learn about making ethical choices? (Part Three)

In Part One of this article, we looked at Dan Ariely's work on how we all have the potential to act unethically, no matter how ethical we may think we are. The two key forces that ...
16
Nov
2017

Enron, KPMG… what can we learn about making ethical choices? (Part Two)

In the second part to this series we look at how you can shrink the personal "fudge factor" at work and highlight four key steps that everyone in your business could follow.
30
Oct
2017

Enron, KPMG… what can we learn about making ethical choices? (Part One)

People in business are challenged daily with having to make ethical choices. This two-part article explores firstly why seemingly good people make unethical choices, and secondly, how ...
19
Oct
2017

Where is your real value add to clients?

As South Africa lurches from one Gupta-inspired Cabinet reshuffle to another, and Trump's Twitter account seems to run the risk of launching World War 3, it would seem a good time to ...
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