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The default choice: Navigating investment options in retirement funds

By Belinda Carbutt on 12 Feb 2025

Reading time: 8 mins

As 2025 brings fresh beginnings, many people take stock in the first month or two, committing to resolutions and reassessing lifestyle goals. From a financia...

Insights categories - Markets and economy

How money tells the story of humanity – with David McWilliams

By Duncan Artus and David McWilliams on 11 Feb 2025

Listening time: 46 mins

Many investors focus on trying to figure out how new technologies might change the world so that they can identify and back the likely winners. But according...

Insights categories - Markets and economy

Where investors fear to fish

By Rory Kutisker-Jacobson on 05 Feb 2025

Reading time: 15 mins

High domestic inflation. Volatile currencies. Foreign languages. Domestic insider advantages. Different cultural, legal and governance practices. Unpredictab...

Insights categories - Corporate citizenship

Paying tribute to Gillian Gray

By Craig Bodenstab on 05 Feb 2025

Reading time: 3 mins

Gillian Gray passed away at the end of last year, concluding an extraordinary life and an inspiring husband-and-wife partnership forged over six decades.  ...

Insights categories - Local investing

In safe hands with the Allan Gray Balanced Fund

By Nick Curtin on 05 Feb 2025

Reading time: 14 mins

The Allan Gray Balanced Fund launched in October of 1999 with a unit price of R10, offering retail investors access to a diversified, multi-asset class,...

Insights categories - Personal investing

How to maximise tax benefits in a two-pot era

By Carla Rossouw and Lee Kotze on 05 Feb 2025

Reading time: 11 mins

The two-pot retirement system, which was implemented in September 2024, gives retirement fund members the ability to withdraw from the savings component of...

Insights category - companies

Diamonds in the rough: A look at luxury

By Jithen Pillay on 05 Feb 2025

Reading time: 11 mins

The luxury industry is broad – it encompasses everything from fine food and beverages to cars, aeroplanes, boats and fine art. Ultimately, luxury is down to...

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