Go long crocodile skins: wild investments from the Currency team for 2025
Can it be a terrible thing to have a few crazy stocks in your portfolio? If you lose, what did you expect. But if…
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Nothing better than home brew: local stocks to consider for 2025
Load-shedding is seemingly done, interest rates are coming down and the economy is stronger. Could this be SA’s year?…
The long wait for fair pay rules
The only winners from the delay to tougher new rules on executive pay will be the country’s army of remuneration consultants…
Boxer’s off with a bang!
A brilliant JSE debut for the retailer raises the question of which stock to buy: the fast-growing soft discounter or its parent, deeply discounted…
The exchange … with Purple Group’s Charles Savage
A massive swing back to profit for Purple Group raises the question: when will its share price follow suit?…
The curious case of the resignation that wasn’t
The board of Quantum Foods is embroiled in a furious attempt to fire a director who insisted governance rules be followed.…
Is the JSE set for a new listings boom?
The exchange’s CEO, Leila Fourie, says she has seen a willingness of companies to list on the JSE that we ‘haven’t seen in many…
Rating the AGMs: Shoprite good, Sasol okay, Truworths woeful
It’s impossible to know how many Shoprite shareholders live in the town of Brackenfell in the northern suburbs of the Western Cape. It’s not…
What’s worse: doctoring your CV or stealing billions?
South Africa is such a strange country. You can run a transparent actual fraud on actual pensioners, in which you take their actual savings…
Feel the burn!
To hear Brait CEO Peter Hayward-Butt tell it, managing the once-magnificent private equity powerhouse these past few years has been a bit like being…
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