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OPINION: What Yellen will mean for the world economy

Janet Yellen is suave, discerning, and generally genteel, writes Nedbank's Neo Kgantsi about the new chairperson of the US Federal Reserve. How will the first female to be nominated for the position...

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OPINION: US Federal Reserve in holding pattern?

Christopher Molumphy, chief investment officer of Franklin Templeton Fixed Income Group talks about the US Federal Reserve (Fed) and the “tapering” of its $85 billion-a-month asset purchase plan that...

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CORPORATE NEWS: Grant Thornton IBR tracker shows decline

According to the Grant Thornton International Business Report quarterly tracker survey, optimism in South African Businesses is reaching an all time low. We look at the statistics provided to indicate...

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CORPORATE NEWS: Shifting currency sands

Paolo Senatore, from Ashburton South Africa, talks about the US dollar’s dominance of the currency market, the effect this has had on, among others, the South African rand and how the sands are...

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PERSONAL FINANCE NEWS: The recovery illusion, are we there yet?

Mark Phillips from Sanlam Investments, shares his insights on what can be expected for 2014 as well as recaps the events that shaped the financial landscape of 2013. We take a closer look.

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INSIGHT: Global survey reveals dramatic economic shift

According to Grant Thornton’s International Business Report, developed markets are set to drive the global economy and business growth this year, while developing countries face a rather challenging...

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INSIGHT: SA confidence in rand rises

Approximately 5000 of SA's professionals are more confident about the outlook for the economy and the prospects for the rand than last year. This is according to the PPS Graduate Professionals...

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INVESTMENT: Value in global equities

While the global economy will continue to grow throughout the year, the rand will remain under pressure. Coupled with the Fed’s continued tapering programme, most fundamentals suggest that a...

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ECONOMY: Mid-year market review

The improvement in developed market economic performance has contending implications for emerging markets such as South Africa’s. We look at the effects of global economic growth in the South African...

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INVESTMENT: Representing the true risk of Money Market

Many investors consider money market and income funds to be low risk and assign a low probability to losing their money. But do investors actually consider the consequences when a larger majority of...

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NEWS: Government bonds rally on oil-triggered inflation ease

The slump in oil prices could result in inflation falling to the lower half of the Reserve Bank's target of between 3% and 6%, writes Jaco Visser in the 29 January 2015 edition of Finweek. Read the...

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