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A delayed budget amid shifting global tides: What to expect from the MTBPS
Maarten Ackerman, Chief Economist at Citadel As South Africa (SA) prepares for the delayed release of the 2025 Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS), it is clear that this year’s...
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Bryte’s 2023 Travel Index gives South Africans crucial travel-risk insights
Anrieth Symon, Head of Travel at Bryte The much-anticipated Bryte Travel Index for 2023 has been released. Delving into international travel preferences, patterns, and areas of risks for...
Regime shift: developed market labour shortages to drive investment in technology
Azad Zangana, Senior European Economist and Strategist at Schroders The global pandemic underlined the fragility of ageing labour markets in the world’s largest economies. This occurred at a...
Experts call for inclusive financial education reform as more South Africans are pushed into debt and stress
Lizl Budhram, Head of Advice at Old Mutual Personal Finance Financial education in South Africa is still lacking, and much must be done to empower consumers to manage their finances better so...
ICANN calls on SA to adopt Universal Acceptance to ensure a unified, multilingual online world
Pierre Dandjinou, ICANN’s Vice President for Stakeholder Engagement in Africa The Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS) is expanding to support more scripts in domain names and email addresses...
Medium-Term Budget 2023 Overview
Johan Gouws - Head of Advice, Sasfin Asset Consulting The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. With the euphoria of the historic fourth Rugby World Cup for the Springboks still filling the air,...
Standard Bank Medium Term Budget Policy Statement initial impressions
Elna Moolman, Economist at Standard Bank Balancing act delivers unsurprising changes Still aiming to stabilise debt, though yet again at a higher level: As we expected,...
Legislative changes in pipeline for Office of Pension Funds Adjudicator
Muvhango Lukhaimane, Pension Funds Adjudicator The reshaping of the regulatory landscape for financial services has been welcomed by the Office of the Pension Funds Adjudicator (OFPA). ...
Light at the end of the tunnel for South Africa’s water and sanitation crisis
Dr Sean Phillips, Director-General of the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) A decades-long decline in South Africa’s ability to provide a reliable supply of clean drinking water and...
Strategic rationale for gold as a portfolio diversifier
Herman van Papendorp, Head of Investment Research & Asset Allocation US real rates have been the dominant driver for the US dollar gold price for a couple of decades, as the fundamental...
Momentum Corporate welcomes the delay of the two-pot retirement system implementation until 2025
Dumo Mbethe, CEO - Momentum Corporate With less than 6 months to go before the initial proposed date for the two-pot retirement system to go live, and as there is still a lot of work to be...













