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The meeting was over and all but a few stragglers had headed off into the late afternoon Cape Town traffic. They included the CEO,…
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Pension fund trustees, fed up with the slow pace of transformation in South Africa’s asset management industry, have flexed their muscles and threatened to…
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“It was October 1987: a mad time for stockbrokers because we were in the middle of a global listings boom. It made subsequent booms…
Why South Africa’s retail bosses are coining it
It’s ironic that Ian Moir’s near destruction of Woolworths may have helped to bump up the remuneration package paid to Shoprite’s Pieter Engelbrecht, as…
The maddening genius of Elon Musk
As investments in new ventures go, it’s hard to imagine Elon Musk being interested in developing a golf course or building a hotel, which…
Why you’re a terrible saver (and how to get better)
Most people struggle to save due to poor financial literacy, often lacking essential money-management skills like budgeting. Others grapple with self-control, driven by the…
The exchange … with Prescient China’s Tian Pan
September was a bonanza for punters in Chinese stocks – thanks to promises of a whatever-it-takes stimulus package by the Chinese authorities. Only, perhaps,…
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It’s nearly 100 years since Tommy Armour won golf’s first Open Championship ever held at Carnoustie. Since then, there have been seven other champions…
Can Boxer KO retail rivals?
It was a big number bonanza last week, when Boxer invited South Africa’s analyst community for a six-hour tinkerfest under the retailer’s metaphorical hood,…
How Capitec’s ‘seven dwarfs’ built a banking behemoth
When Riaan Stassen and the executive team from Boland Bank arrived at Stellenbosch’s Techno Park, the microlenders of the entity that would soon become…
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Thomas Massie on the SA-US freeze, Trump, and the Epstein files
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Discovery doubles down on digital assets
The bank’s partnership with crypto exchange Luno shows traditional finance…
