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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

This is the world of 2030 • Space, food, energy and institutions – the world is on track for big changes.

A year for the turning of political tables? • As South Africa’s local government elections loom, the ruling party may face the wrath of urbanisation.

Reforms to kickstart South Africa in 2021 • A lot of things need to be done to get SA’s economy off to a good start again.

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The vaccine-related metals amid a global economic bounce-back • There are some minerals, from precious to industrial ones, that may receive a boon as the world adjusts after the pandemic.

Gold and copper – will Botswana coin it? • Former SA gold-mining heavyweights turn their attention to the riches laying unclaimed in the Kalahari desert.

Fast to the starting line, slow out of the blocks • Lauded continent-wide free trade came into effect on 1 January, but very few countries were ready to trade.

Culture: your #1 competitive advantage • Fostering a healthy corporate culture may realise immense shareholder value.

Residential property bucks the trend • Focus on affordable renting proves defensive for SA’s residential REITs.

Exposure to pioneering tech stocks • The global equity fund aims to provide investors access to new technology and innovation stocks and deliver long-term capital growth.

Bumper crop may be boost

Cleaner steel

Through its symmetrical triangle

Maintaining a recovery?

Simon’s stock tips • Founder and director of investment website JustOneLap.com, Simon Brown, is finweek’s resident expert on the stock markets. In this column he provides insight into recent market developments.

How to be a smarter small investor • Private investors have several edges over their large money-managing peers. Use this to your advantage.

The index inclusion effect on Tesla • Strong-performing shares tend to get stronger, while the weak get weaker.

Why there may be two further interest rate cuts • The lack of inflationary pressure combined with calls to boost the economy could spur more decreases.

The local sectors that may have a hard one in 2021 • Preparing for market weakness in the year ahead may pose buy opportunities for those who’ve done their research.

Difficult decisions await investors • For how long can stock markets move north and economies south?

RIDING 2021’S THEMES IN OFFSHORE INVESTING • Trader Petri explains his picks of the main trends he expects to see play out on the global markets in 2021.

E-commerce and healthcare ETFs worth a look • Some investment trends have become evident in different parts of the world in the wake of 2020.

HOW WILL THE BEST EXECUTION RULE AFFECT INVESTORS? • The introduction of an international share-trading practice may lower the cost of investment in future.

Leading a life insurer through Covid-19 • Riaan van Reenen was appointed CEO of Discovery Life shortly before the coronavirus pandemic hit South Africa.

There remains a place for independent financial advisers

A coupé that commands attention • There is a lot more to the exuberant BMW 4 Series Coupé than just its controversial...