State accused of ignoring black investment professionals, specifically when delegation was sent to convince ratings agencies SA was sound Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa was criticised this week by black investment professionals, who accused government of neglecting them. Read more on News 24 ...
Investors and investment professionals at some stage or another have searched for and dreamt many a night of finding the ‘holy-grail’ indicator to time market tops and bottoms. Many criteria have been used, and some have brought hope while others have proven to be less reliable. Of various attempts to foretell market trends, some have stood out and raised [...]
Why Transformation to a Normal and Equal Society? Now 91% of population can compete Most Olympic medals since 1952 Poverty eradication & equal society Jobs, skills development, economic growth Advance in sports, medicine, technology, entertainment, renewable energy etc. Sustainable society for future generations Investment Industry Black Managed & Owned Investment Management Firms: Manage 4.4% of [...]
SABC news coverage of the investment management summit. Transformation needed within the investment management industry View on http://www.absip.co.za ...
SHARES in poultry group Sovereign Food Investments perched close to a 12-month high on Thursday, after larger rival Country Bird Holdings tabled a buy-out offer at 900c/share. At the close of trade Sovereign’s shares were up 16.55% to 838c — close to the 880c annual high recorded in October last year. Country Bird already owns [...]
The fund aims to protect at least 90% of investors’ capital on an ongoing basis and is regulation 28-compliant. The fund targets the growth of underlying capital and achieving increased income returns. The fund is optimistic about the growth prospects of multinational media company Naspers*, according to Asief Mohamed, manager of the fund and director of [...]
I’m all for shareholder activism. Too often management whose interests are not aligned with shareholders’ ride roughshod over the rights of shareholders. For this reason the efforts of shareholder activists like Theo Botha, Chris Logan and Albie Cilliers must be applauded. It is horrifically difficult to take a stand as a small shareholder and see [...]
PRUDENTIAL Investment Managers, the largest shareholder in Sovereign Foods, with a 22.3% stake, says it is "not wedded" to its Sovereign investment, and would consider any fair offer for the shares. In a veiled reference to recent attempts by Country Bird Holdings executive director Kevin James to persuade some of Sovereign’s institutional shareholders to sell, [...]
The country’s troubles, from a gyrating currency to a flip-flopping government, may be good news for the maker of Budweiser. Of all the countries whose regulators need to approve Anheuser-Busch InBev NV’s purchase of SABMiller, only one is flirting with a potential junk-bond rating. It’s South Africa. The country’s troubles, from a gyrating currency to [...]
Johannesburg - Now may be as good a time as ever for South Africa to sell Eurobonds for the first time in almost two years. Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan travelled to the UK and US this week to reassure investors and rating companies of his commitment to meet fiscal goals. While the trip was billed [...]
