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What is private equity and why is it important to South Africa and pension funds?
Geoff Blount, Member of Motswedi Economic Transformation Specialists’ Investment Committee The retirement industry, in essence, is about investing people’s savings over the long term...
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No one likes a VAT hike, except the “Market”
Johann Els, Chief Economist, and John Manyike, Group Head of Financial Education, at Old Mutual Group South Africa’s highly anticipated national budget was unexpectedly postponed,...
Upcycling for a greener fashion industry: Balancing sustainability and intellectual property
Emily Gammon, Associate, Robyn Moriarty, Associate and Refilwe Riba, Candidate Attorney at Webber Wentzel "Resale is a way of generating business without needing to continually create...
Inflation edges up to 3.2% in the first rebased CPI
Sanisha Packirisamy, Chief Economist, Momentum Investments You can read Momentum Investments' full report here. ENDS
Looking back, in order to move forward
Leon Greyling, COO of ICTS The multitude of investment performance surveys contain a wealth of data that, unless analysed carefully, can possibly lead you down the wrong path – an...
Recent Adjudicator determination highlights importance of following S37D process
Lize de la Harpe, Senior Legal Advisor, Sanlam Corporate Introduction The primary purpose of a retirement fund is to provide retirement benefits and death benefits. For...
2025 Budget Speech – delays … but why?
Conway Williams, Head of Credit at Prescient Investment Management The 2025 National Budget, initially scheduled for 19 February, was postponed amid what many are saying is a...
Magnificent mass: Finding emerging opportunities in concentrated global markets
Mario Fisher, Head of Quantitative Research and Co-portfolio Manager of the Old Mutual Global Managed Alpha Fund, Old Mutual Investment Group With the much-anticipated arrival of the...
FIC publishes final Guidance Note 7A on the implementation of the risk management and compliance programme in terms of section 42 of the Financial Intelligence Centre Act
Dawid de Villiers, Partner, Lerato Lamola, Partner, Lenee Green, Partner, Mariam Ismail, Associate & Christopher Williamson, Associate at Webber Wentzel The Financial Intelligence...
Illicit financial flows: The responsibility of South African Financial Institutions
James Saunders, co-founder and CTO at Anti-Money Laundering (AML) software provider RelyComply Criminals conducting Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs)—money transferred from illegal...
Budget blunder doesn’t bode ill
Izak Odendaal, Investment Strategist, Old Mutual Wealth On Tuesday last week, American astronomers announced that a sizeable asteroid named 2024 YR4 has a 3% chance of colliding with...













