Allan Gray’s data finds that advisers making heavier use of offshore solutions often have higher client balances and stronger inflows.
South African life insurers paid 99.3% of all claims against fully underwritten individual life policies in 2020 to a value of R20.6 billion. The 2020 death claims statistics for fully underwritten individual life […]
Coronation Fund Managers grew its assets under management (AUM) by 11% to R634 billion in the year to September 2021, from R569bn. However, it once again reported a net cash outflow of average […]
Behavioural finance expert Morgan Housel, partner at Collaborative Fund and an award-winning author, was a speaker at the Allan Gray Investment Summit and the CFA Investment Conference this year. Housel, in almost identical […]
It is questionable whether the much-vaunted “too-big-to-fail” benefits of the Financial Sector Laws Amendment Bill now before Parliament justify its far-reaching impingements on the rule of law, its dubious depositor insurance provisions and […]
It is questionable whether the much-vaunted “too-big-to-fail” benefits of the Financial Sector Laws Amendment Bill now before Parliament justify its far-reaching impingements on the rule of law, its dubious depositor insurance provisions and […]
Goldman Sachs, one of the world’s top three investment banks, does not think the emergence of the omicron variant of Covid-19 is sufficient reason to make major changes to investment portfolios. Meanwhile, James […]
The Financial Services Tribunal has upheld the JSE’s directive that Namibia-based Trustco must restate its financial statements for the year to 31 March 2019 and its interim results to 30 September 2019, because […]
The Financial Services Tribunal has upheld the JSE’s directive that Namibia-based Trustco must restate its financial statements for the year to 31 March 2019 and its interim results to 30 September 2019, because […]
The Financial Services Tribunal has expressed its disapproval of the way in which FNB debarred a representative – and it set aside the employee’s debarment for a second time. FNB dismissed and debarred […]
The Financial Services Tribunal has expressed its disapproval of the way in which FNB debarred a representative – and it set aside the employee’s debarment for a second time. FNB dismissed and debarred […]
The National Consumer Tribunal (NCT) has cancelled the debt counselling registration of the managing director of Cape Town-based Onedebt and fined him R500 000. The NCT found Johan Fourie guilty of numerous transgressions of […]
The National Consumer Tribunal (NCT) has cancelled the debt counselling registration of the managing director of Cape Town-based Onedebt and fined him R500 000. The NCT found Johan Fourie guilty of numerous transgressions of […]
The Compensation Commissioner has published a Notice in the Government Gazette that sets out when the Compensation Fund will compensate employees for injuries, illness or death as a result of receiving a Covid-19 […]
The Compensation Commissioner has published a Notice in the Government Gazette that sets out when the Compensation Fund will compensate employees for injuries, illness or death as a result of receiving a Covid-19 […]
The South African Law Reform Commission (SALRC) has extended until 14 January 2022 the deadline for comments on Issue Paper 41 that deals with its review of matrimonial property law. Issue Paper 41 […]
The South African Law Reform Commission (SALRC) has extended until 14 January 2022 the deadline for comments on Issue Paper 41 that deals with its review of matrimonial property law. Issue Paper 41 […]
Average take-home pay in South Africa decreased by 3.1% in real terms in October, the steepest year-on-year decline since September 2019, according to the latest BankservAfrica Take-home Pay Index (BTPI). BankservAfrica said the […]
