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Bonds, banks are flavour of the month
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Why Anchor is buying South African bonds
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The late Tito Mboweni, followed by Gill Marcus and now Lesetja Kganyago, all had one key instruction from the government: tackle inflation. And all…
Go long! There’s still (some) money to be made in bonds
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