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Registration has opened for The Insurance Conference 2012

Registration has opened for The Insurance Conference 2012 which will be held at Sun City, from 10 - 13 June 2012 and an early bird discount is available for early bookings until 9 March 2012, so get registered now. The Annual Insurance Conference provides a forum for all sectors of the insurance ...
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Invest in advice for financial peace of mind

A solid long-term financial plan drawn up by a trusted adviser is the best investment you can make this year, according to Peter Dempsey, deputy CEO of the Association for Savings and Investment South Africa (ASISA). ...
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Hedge funds outperform ALSI by 6% in 2011, with significantly less volatility

The Blue Ink Composite (BIC), which tracks the performance of around 100 Hedge Funds in South Africa, recorded an 8. 65% increase in 2011, outperforming the JSE All Share Total Return Index (ALSI) by more than 6%. This outperformance was achieved with significantly less volatility levels than the local ...
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Money market unit trust category no longer king in terms of size

The local Collective Investment Schemes (CIS) industry grew its total assets under management by R69-billion to R996-billion in 2011, narrowly missing the R1-trillion mark. Releasing the 2011 Domestic and Foreign CIS statistics at a media conference in Johannesburg today, Leon Campher, CEO of ...
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Beware of yield chasing

Investors appear to be acting smarter when it comes to earning income as the prevailing low yields start to hurt. According to the ASISA unit trust flow statistics for the quarter ended December 2011 and released last week, the category of unit trusts that attracted the highest net inflows was the fixed ...
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