Is the punchbowl half full or half empty?
March 31, 2021
By: Old Mutual Wealth Investment Strategists Izak Odendaal and Dave Mohr Former US Federal Reserve Chair William McChesney Martin famously said that the job of the central bank is to take away the punchbowl just as the party gets…
By: Johann van Tonder, Economist at Momentum and Herman van Papendorp, Head of Investment Research & Asset Allocation at Momentum Investments. Highlights The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the South African Reserve Bank (Sarb) kept…
Which Lockdown Habits Could Last A Lifetime?
March 25, 2021
By: Charles Somers, Schroders Fund Manager As an investor focused on changing lifestyles, Charles Somers discusses how to separate the pandemic’s lasting impacts on consumer behaviour from its transient ones. “Prediction is very difficult, especially…
Embracing alternative opportunities to withstand shocks and changes to your investments
March 24, 2021
By: Riccardo Fontanella, Head of Technical Marketing, Alexander Forbes Investments Traditional investments like shares, bonds and cash need help. Riccardo Fontanella, head of technical marketing at Alexander Forbes Investments, says that investors are increasingly looking…
Three Ways The Investment World Has Changed
March 24, 2021
By: Robin Parkbrook, Fund Manager and Co-Head of Asian Equity Alternative Investments, Schroders The investment world looks very different today compared to what it’s looked like in the recent past and requires investors to challenge…
Based upon a Sasfin webinar with Paul Donovan, global chief economist at UBS, a Sasfin offshore investment partner The COVID-19 pandemic has hastened several structural changes that were gathering momentum before 2020, but this has several implications for…
SEI South Africa Achieves Level 2 B-BBEE Rating
March 23, 2021
Achievement Demonstrates Continued Commitment to South African Economic Empowerment SEI (NASDAQ: SEIC) announced that its South African business, SEI Investments South Africa (Pty) Limited, achieved a Level 2 Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Rating, scoring…
Highlights: wealth & investment firms are not ESG-ready yet client demand is the top ESG driver total portfolio approach will discriminate leaders from laggards for returns and client engagement Objectway, a leader in the Digital…
