Tag: economy
INVESTMENT MIX CRITICAL!
Investment costs should be a key consideration in any long-term investment strategy. Whatever the financial service industry deducts for administration, advice, commission, trading, investment...
FOCUS ON SMALLER BUSINESSES
The African growth story is no longer a fairy tale. Over the past decade multinational companies, private equity funds and infrastructure development programmes have...
POVERTY, POLITICS & POLICY IN SOUTH AFRICA
Along with inequality and unemployment, poverty is seen as South Africa’s biggest challenge with over half of South Africans living below the national poverty...
FAMILY BUSINESS SECTOR REPORTS GROWTH
Despite the current economic uncertainty and the accelerating pace of change, South Africa’s family business sector has high ambitions for quick and aggressive growth...
EXPAND INTO AFRICA
According to the 2016 African Economic Outlook report, Africa’s annual GDP growth increased from around 2% in the 1980s and 1990s to above 5%...
THE CHANGING FACE OF GLOBALISATION
Globalisation is a continuing reality, but certain of its effects are increasingly coming under widespread attack and scrutiny.
Just this year, Britain voted to...
Salary sentiment improves
SA’s top executives are confident that they will be fairly compensated – in terms of 2016 year-end bonuses and salary increases in 2017 - despite the current political and economic rollercoaster in which South Africa finds itself.
SME RESILIENCE DESPITE ECONOMIC STRAIN
Despite a tough economic environment, 92% of small businesses in South Africa actively plan to increase their customer base and generate more sales over...
DOMESTIC ECONOMY KEPT ALIVE BY PENSION INCREASES
Pensions continue to drive the South African economy while the downward trend for salaries persists, this according to BankservAfrica’s latest Disposable Salary (BDSI) and...
Raising profit margins in a stagnant economy
South Africa’s current economic environment poses a real risk for small and medium enterprise (SME) owners given its stagnant growth, and it is increasingly more difficult for local businesses to sustain themselves, let alone increase profit margins.
