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

Job replacement and artificial intelligence • Have robots already taken over jobs and is it happening in South Africa?

Finweek - English

in brief

DOUBLE TAKE

Catering for millennials’ residential needs • What is co-living and why is it attractive to those born after the early 1980s?

The aluminium bull might be rearing its head • There is a big demand for aluminium, but its own production is carbon intensive.

Big miners’ boost to tax takes • Improved cash generation from miners keeps investors happy and governments too with their tax obligations.

Agriculture exports support SA balance of trade • The strong performance of the local agricultural sector is expected to be repeated this year.

An alternative to fixed deposits • Generating higher interest income than a money market portfolio, with little capital volatility over the short term.

How to grow trading volumes

Shares continue to slide

Investors seem hopeful

Imagine a disruptive business model • Let’s do a thought experiment, which can give insight into business models and how they can develop novel ways of doing business and disrupt existing companies.

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.

SA’s telecoms stocks pose value • Insight into the telecommunication sector and the main players in the country.

Momentum behind central banks’ gold buying could last longer • Basel III banking requirements should continue to bolster the purchases of gold after their final implementation.

How to deal with market uncertainty • A dividend strategy could serve as a hedge.

Tencent Music Entertainment rules the music coop • The Tencent subsidiary is set for stellar growth and trades cheaply after a margin call fiasco recently. Its market is almost limitless.

Is the end of Eskom nigh? • The recent announcement that the private sector may generate up to 100MW of power has huge implications for South African businesses and Eskom.

Three emerging market stocks to watch • There are many investment opportunities in developing markets – such as these three.

Naspers, Prosus post strong profit growth • Investors worry about the complexity of the companies’ share swap deal to narrow the discount to its net asset value.

CA$H, CA$H, POT. .. REALLY? • finweek analyses the legal requirements for producing cannabis and looks at what producers are doing to increase production and where to invest in this growing industry.

ETFMG Alternative Harvest ETF

CONSIDERING YOUR RETIREMENT OPTIONS • How have the markets influenced annuities available for retirees?

IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS WHEN CHOOSING A LIVING ANNUITY

NAMIBIA MOVING TO CENTRE OF GREEN METALS MINING • Other nations in the region are also eyeing new technology minerals as the world moves to cleaner consumption.

Taking the Mazda CX-30 to the road • Looks are not the issue, but pricing and sibling rivalry could be the Mazda CX-30’s undoing.

Generation Z’s money matters • Does the financial...