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

The merchants of Venice, artificial intelligence and the future of information • The internet is a wellspring of information. How can one manage all this data and identify what is relevant?

The ship has not yet sunk • The tide can be turned if the finance minister heeds the advice of the National Planning Commission.

Finweek - English

“Disappointed not to have been able to see through the turnaround.”

“What value is (there) giving him an intelligence briefing?”

“MANY PEOPLE IN EUROPE ARE UNHAPPY … AND LOOKING TO SETTLE ELSEWHERE.”

DOUBLE TAKE

Reward time for investors in miners • Mining companies are releasing their results and diversified titan Glencore warrants special attention.

Should all miners be vaccinated? • The mining sector is planning its vaccination programme but there are some complications.

Optimistic about the SA Inc recovery • The Fairtree Equity Prescient Fund, an actively-managed domestic general equity fund with a focus on maximising returns, offers medium- to long-term capital growth.

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Be an active owner-investor • If you own a business, you must be actively involved. The same goes for stocks.

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.

What you may not know about retirement annuities • February is the month to review your annuities and tax-free investment plans. Consider some of these lesser-known facts.

Time to abandon policies and ideologies that have not worked • The budget speech is around the corner. Andrew Duvenage gives his take on what government should do.

Looking at markets afresh • Examining the ESG investment strategy, which falls under the banner of sustainable investments.

How an industry can learn to be the best • The tax collector was transformed with a focus on taxpaying ‘clients’ over a decade ago. Maybe it’s time that the financial services industry follow suit.

Digitalisation not a cure-all for customer experience shortcomings • How can financial services companies reconnect with their customers as the world remains in lockdown?

How providers responded to the pandemic • Independent financial advisers give an overview of how financial services providers responded to the altered reality of a country in lockdown.

Maintaining the trust dividend • There are some vital measures which a financial services provider can implement to hold onto its most prized asset, namely trust.

Humans need connections • Financial services providers were taught some valuable lessons by a locked-down world.

Fintech and the business of consumer relationships • Small businesses are adapting to the online world. There are several considerations they need to take into account.

When a butterfly flaps its wings (or in this case, a bat) • Prioritise direct capital allocation to the means of production, labour, and technology that benefit society positively.

Huge upside on low-risk stock • The investment case for American Tower is a solid one built on steady...