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Global active fund managers struggle in 2010 & 2011Published: Sun, 20 May 12 Since the start of the credit crisis in 2008 companies and governments have faced unprecedented economic challenges and elevated volatility across global markets. Research increasingly indicates active fund managers are struggling to outperform their benchmarks raising doubts as to whether active fund managers can ...
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Taking back control: Are we working ourselves to death?Published: Sun, 20 May 12 By Phillip Kassel, Financial Adviser, Liberty Life
Former engineer and American academic Sing Lin argues that working past the age of 55 will kill you more quickly. His conclusion is that for every year one works beyond age 55, one loses 2 years of life span on average.
In his paper Optimum Strategies ...
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Glacier International simplifies offshore investmentPublished: Wed, 16 May 12 Glacier International has launched “Navigate by Glacier International”, a simple and cost effective way to invest offshore. The solution comprises a range of carefully selected funds across different investor risk profiles.
Investors today are faced with a wide range of funds and managers, ...
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When not to heed the headlinesPublished: Wed, 16 May 12 David Crosoer, Head of Research at PPS Investments
Concerns about the strength of the global recovery have dominated markets over the past year, with renewed worries about the sustainability of the US economic recovery and the sensitivity of China to a European recession leaving investors uncertain. However, ...
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More SA professionals considering emigrating - surveyPublished: Tue, 15 May 12 Rising concern over issues such as crime, healthcare and education are leading more graduate professionals in South Africa to consider emigrating, according to the latest results from the PPS Graduate Professionals Confidence Index.
The quarterly survey, which tracks the confidence levels of nearly 6 000 of ...
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Offshore on the agenda of SA managersPublished: Tue, 15 May 12 By Marize van der Merwe, Senior Investment Analyst, Glacier by Sanlam
In recent months offshore as an investment theme has featured strongly on the agenda of numerous SA investment managers. Compelling arguments have been made for offshore investing with the most significant from a valuation perspective. ...
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Has Value’s time returned?Published: Mon, 14 May 12 Andrew Dittberner, a senior investment manager at Cannon Asset Managers, looks at how the investment cycle has turned and sounds a warning for those following the growth style (whether knowingly or unwittingly)
For the last few years, growth investing has dominated the South African investment landscape resulting ...
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The good, the bad and the uglyPublished: Mon, 14 May 12 ECONOMIC COMMENT BY LUKE DOIG, SENIOR ECONOMIST
CREDIT GUARANTEE INSURANCE CORPORATION
Month-to-date over recoveries on fuel currently stand at 45 cents per litre for 95 ULP (petrol) and 24 cents per litre for 0. This has primarily been driven by the welcome drop in international crude oil prices in recent ...
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Defining different types of riskPublished: Fri, 11 May 12
Dr David Hillson FIRM, HonFAPM, PMI Fellow
People sometimes ask how we should define "strategic risk". First let's consider "strategic risk":
One basic definition of risk is "uncertainty ...
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SA traders anticipate increasing opportunity from global risk imbalancesPublished: Fri, 11 May 12 Greece’s recent election results, coupled with a change in French leadership and the ongoing European debt crisis has caused the Euro to fall to a three-month low and continues to put pressure on the European economy.
Iain Giffen, Consulting Trader Coach for Knowledge to Action, a leading forex training, ...
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Economy growing, but challenges remainPublished: Fri, 11 May 12 By Tendani Mantshimuli, consumer economist, Liberty Life
Economic data for the first two months of the year indicate that the South African economy continues to grow, although not as robustly as we would wish it to be.
Manufacturing: stronger but not necessarily sustainable
Manufacturing output, ...
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Project management is no popularity contestPublished: Wed, 09 May 12 Observing the decision-makers who select an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution is something of a study of the human condition. From the highs of imagined benefits and anticipated advantages, to the lows of failed expectations and ballooning costs, all the emotions of life can play out. That’s because ...
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Is a fiscal policy council the answer?Published: Tue, 08 May 12
Jac Laubscher
Group Economist
Sanlam
There is no denying that, rightly or wrongly, in the opinion of some people the credibility of South Africa’s fiscal policy has been impaired. The most recent downgrading of South Africa ...
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