The first rule of investing is to avoid putting all your proverbial eggs into a single basket. In investment parlance, this is called “diversification” and means investing your portfolio across a...

Umbrella funds are the single most effective vehicle for reforming the South African retirement fund industry. The opportunities that rest in their economies of scale - their ability to reach...

Searching for photos of mountain climbers (not the exercise), you’ll more often than not find images of happy, jolly people on the summit, or with the abyss behind them. You rarely see the whole...

More than six weeks into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, there’s no end in sight to the conflict that has shook the world to its very core. Aside from the immense suffering caused by Russia’s...

Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) was appointed as joint lead manager in raising $3bn worth of Republic of South Africa bonds on behalf of National Treasury. With a final orderbook of nearly $7bn, the...

Global consumers support shift from fossil fuels as they expect spike in energy prices to reduce their purchasing power Many more blame price increases on market volatility and geopolitical tensions...

Active ownership is one of the most important devices in a sustainable investor’s toolkit. Kimberley Lewis, Schroders’ Head of Active Ownership, explains: “Where Schroders has taken the decision to...

Alexforbes Manager Watch™ Survey of Retirement Fund Investment Managers shows increased pace of transformation among large managersHighlights An impressive increase in the number of participating...

The annual Black Excellence awards were held by the Black Management Forum Western Cape in late March, with Professor Thuli Madonsela as the keynote speaker. Mergence Investment Managers was awarded...

The Great Resignation, a term coined by psychologist Anthony Klotz, is a post-pandemic movement that saw a wave of resignations take hold across the United States (US) and other parts of the world....