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Balance Your Lifestyle With A Retirement Portfolio

One of the biggest challenges in financial planning is to strike the right balance between your current and future needs.

Managing Real-World Market Fears

It can be hard to focus on your investment fundamentals when a stock or sector runs hard. This fear is manageable.

Relativity In The Investment World

Which asset classes boast the best value relative to others?

How To Use Net Asset Value When Considering Stocks

A company’s NAV might be a trap. There’s more to this valuation metric.

There's (Always) Money In Food

Food prices are accelerating in South Africa and across the planet. finweek looks at SA’s listed food producer sector to gauge how they’re performing amid rising food prices.

Legal provision for mandatory vaccination in the workplace

Can employers enforce mandatory jabs and what will happen to employees who refuse to be vaccinated?

Buying a piece of the future

How can a retail investor gain access to aluminium – likely the hottest ‘green technology’ metal in the years to come?

Turning Exxaro green

The company intends to make the most of its coal but is aiming for carbon neutrality by 2050, says CEO Mxolisi Mgojo.

LISTED GROCERY RETAILERS PICK UP THE PIECES – AND MAYBE MORE MARKET SHARE

finweek analyses the outlook for South Africa’s Big Five grocery retailers in the aftermath of July’s riots and looting.

Counting The Cost Of Chaos

Commercial property owners weigh up the costs of damage from the recent riots and looting.

How Will SA's New Finance Minister Tackle State Spending?

The boost to tax revenue shouldn’t be seen as a permanent windfall. Structural problems to SA’s fiscus remains.

Dividends: What's Not To Love?

Owners of mining shares are enjoying super dividends. Simon Brown explains why a dividend is such an important part of investment.

SA's Trade Surpluses Hide An Inconvenient Truth

Analysing the reasons for the surplus show that the economy remains in a precarious position and is very vulnerable to the commodity cycle.

When Companies Are Turned Around

What to look for when a once high-flying company is trying to sort out its affairs.

Tiptoeing around alternative investments

Some tips to consider when going ‘alt’.

It's time for ETFs to become mainstream

ETFs have been available in SA for over 20 years, but some investors are still hesitant to adopt them.

Rhodium party still going strong

Amplats shareholders have this metal to thank for their interim dividends.

Diamonds or a holiday?

The diamond market is storming back, but there are more threats to the market.

How Retail Investors Can Invest For The Good

Fran Troskie gives her take on sustainable investment for the man on the street.

How Stories Influence Investment Questions

When we look at trends, there are underlying narratives that keep recurring and we need to consider them.

How To Choose Stocks

When you are interested in buying a share, there are a few metrics you can use to help you decide.

Will Extended Valuations Lead To A Big Meltdown?

An equity market meltdown is unlikely if central banks act according to market expectations.

How Blockchain May Be Revolutionary

Decentralised finance has changed the industry. Will it last though?

What Is Driving The Commodities Cycle?

The world is adjusting in the way it consumes the planet. Even with new technologies being rolled out, the mineral supercycle seems resilient.

Sugar industry sets its sights on production of bio-jet fuel

The generation of green energy could become a game-changer for the local sugar industry.

What to do with your portfolio when you die or become incapacitated

A backup person to close out your trading positions and someone (or more) to take over the management of your portfolio when you can’t manage it, is crucial.

The wealthy get richer even when governments ‘clamp' down

The global tax system decided on a minimum level of corporate tax. This won’t address the creation of rampant wealth.

THE CONSTRUCTION SECTOR IS GEARING UP

After a decade of tough operating environments, SA is left with only a handful of listed builders to tackle the government’s infrastructure rollout.

LOOTING FOLLOWING ZUMA'S ARREST RAISES SA'S RISK PREMIUM

The violent ransacking of businesses following the incarceration of former president Jacob Zuma hits business confidence.

Explaining the base effect

We have seen this effect in the surge in inflation, GDP data and company results. But how do we work around it?