Finweek - English

Finweek is South Africa’s leading financial weekly magazine focusing on investment. With its brisk, creative and authoritative analysis of business and investment issues, it’s an essential business tool in the daily battle for competitive advantage. Today's business decision-makers have to cope with increased pressure on their time and are expected, more than ever before, to succeed in the face of stiffer competition. Finweek provides relevant information in quick bytes, along with award-winning investment advice.

from the editor

How technology influences politics • Advances in how we communicate will continue to create opportunities for those who want to sow division.

B-BBEE is buckling under pressure • Pressure from the European Union, and a potential appeals court judgement, may force the government to rethink its empowerment approach.

Finweek - English

The crazy year that was 2020

Miners brace for new leaders • As some of the world’s largest mining companies are seeing a change of guard, David McKay takes a look at what the industry can expect in 2021.

Get your business online • Google South Africa launched free digital tools to help local entrepreneurs move to e-commerce after the pandemic.

Allocating and maintaining your investment capital • Managing your portfolio – from deciding whether to invest directly in shares or through ETFs, to which assets are worth holding on to – takes time and consideration.

Share picks for 2021 • Technical analyst Moxima Gama discusses the four stocks that she believes pose the best upside in the new year.

Where has inflation gone? • Simon Brown believes the worldwide low-inflation environment is here to stay.

Goodbye 2020 … Hello 2021 • Schalk Louw shares his outlook for the largest asset classes available to local investors.

The outlook for SA’s four popular investment instruments • As 2020 draws to its bitter close, some respite may lay ahead for local stocks and bonds. The drive to list a diversified basket of offshore-focused exchange-traded funds will likely continue unabated. And the rand? Lest we burn our fingers in ever predicting our volatile currency.

JSE ends 2020 on a better note • Investors are starting to anticipate a recovery in the new year.

Big tech set to remain dominant amid muted value recovery • The planned breakup of large technological companies by US competition authorities may support entrepreneurship a little.

Interim results announcement • for the six months ended 30 September 2020

A TALE OF VACCINES AND CONSTRAINTS ON GROWTH • The outlook for SA’s economic growth in 2021 hinges on a rapid increase in power generation and urgently needed reforms. The realisation of both is daunting, to say the least.

MAKING BAD (INVESTMENT) DECISIONS IN A PANDEMIC • Many investors fell into the trap of either selling stocks at depressed prices during the March market rout, or cashing in their pensions.

THE SECTOR SET TO BOOST THE ECONOMY • One of the success stories in 2020 was the solid growth in the agricultural sector in the midst of strict lockdown measures and a struggling economy.

THE YEAR SMALL BUSINESSES SUFFERED • The Covid-19 pandemic brought the fragility of South Africa’s SMMEs into sharp relief, with many succumbing to the economic hardship. More needs to be done to ensure this sector thrives.

Survival strategies for 2021

How could SMME owners equip themselves better?

FUNDING MADE SIMPLER • Through digital technology, SMEgo users can apply for multiple funding opportunities with a once-off application process.

Brewers and distillers in the aftermath of the pandemic • Local whisky producers and rum distillers look forward to increasing trends, even as craft gin...