Assets & Investments

The start of the year is a common time for people to re-evaluate their lifestyles, their careers and their financial situations. This often manifests as the famous “New Year’s resolution,” an impulsive decision to kickstart the year with some form of lifestyle change, fitness goal or new habit.

Somewhat ironically, each new year launches into the same old news cycle: the WEF meetings at Davos, the State of the Nation (Sona) speech, presentation of the national Budget to Parliament. Those a bit longer in the tooth may feel that it’s all over-hyped – 'sound and fury, signifying nothing' – because invariably these events don’t become watershed moments, just brief intermissions that change little, if anything.

With the range of investment options available today, the choice of products investment products is overwhelming. Perhaps this is one reason that when it comes to household savings, South Africa does not fare well compared to global standards.

The drought in Cape town and surrounding areas have caused a surge in impact investing. Impact investment is to a large extent still fairly unknown and under-used in South Africa, despite the vast opportunities in a country with a massive scarcity of resources.

Geoff Blount | Managing Director | BayHill Capital | geoffb@bayhill.co.za | www.bayhillcapital.co.za | This is a win for Cyril Ramaphosa, but given the make-up of the new NEC, this is not necessarily a loss for the Zuma faction within the ANC.Markets got this one wrong – and were pricing in a Cyril slate victory, rather than a “hung” NEC. Hence, we expect the rand and the domestic-facing stocks to weaken tomorrow after their recent rally. Some of the euphoria will be repriced out of the market and it will retrace some of its steps as the reality sinks in.If people were looking for

Victor Mphaphuli | Co-head | STANLIB Fixed Income | media@stanlib.com | www.stanlib.com |South Africa’s economic history since 1994 when the country first asked global...

Melanie De Nysschen | Principal | Bravura | mdnysschen@bravura.net | www.bravura.net |Listing on a stock exchange is not just the reserve of large corporations. ...

https://youtu.be/EDwGX6dX8XwLesiba Mothata | Executive Chief Economist | Alexander Forbes | http://www.alexanderforbes.co.za/ |READ MORE: Dealing with credit rating downgrades

   Lesiba Mothata | Executive Chief Economist | Gyongyi King | Chief Investment Officer || Alexander Forbes | http://www.alexanderforbes.co.za/ |S&P Global Ratings has, for the first time...

Elize Botha | Managing Director | Old Mutual Unit Trusts | christabell.kota@omwealth.co.za | www.oldmutual.co.za |While it may be tempting to buy into the evolving cryptocurrency...