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2025 (draft) budget – A realm of difficult choices
Mpho Molopyane, Chief Economist at Alexforbes The postponement of the 2025 Budget continues to dominate headlines. While the focus has been on the 2 percentage point (ppt) VAT rate...
Crypto’s Achilles’ Heel: Why physical gold remains the ultimate safe haven
Rael Demby, CEO of The South African Gold Coin Exchange, The Scoin Shop and SafeGold The latest digital heist—where hackers siphoned off $1.5 billion from a major cryptocurrency...
Data science-driven asset manager shares software to promote industry use of AI
Vincent Anthonyrajah, CEO of Differential Capital As an early adopter of Artificial Intelligence (AI) investing, asset management firm Differential Capital has used data to uncover...
Currency expert shares five top pressures on the Rand in 2025
Bianca Botes, Director at Citadel Global As economic and political dynamics shift in 2025, the South African (SA) rand could be in for a bumpy ride, but it might not be all downhill,...
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,...
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...
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...
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