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 future of fast food • SA’s competitive fast-food industry was mostly spared from the Covid-19 lockdowns, but times are changing and there may be more upheavals on the way.

The winter of our discontent • What is being done to develop opportunities in townships?

Finweek - English

in brief

Accepting Ferraris as collateral • Funding entrepreneurs by taking their accumulated assets into account is challenging vested ways of financing.

Major changes to come at Motsepe’s ARM? • Speculation is rife after the public discussion of the future of African Rainbow Minerals.

Implats to tap into battery metals? • The platinum group miner is considering investment options to benefit from future metals.

THE PRICE OF PLATINUM

Micro part, major impact • The global semiconductor shortage, expected to reach into 2022, is having a major impact on the production of new cars.

Ford SA’s manufacturing operation boosts jobs

Poultry industry on new growth and transformation path • The poultry industry is already well-advanced in expanding inclusively and creating more jobs.

Developments in the SA poultry industry

A multi-factor investment approach • This fund seeks to maximise long-term capital appreciation by investing primarily in JSE-listed companies.

Profits are the focus now

Tech woes continue

End to two-year consolidation?

Keep it simple • Choose simplicity over complexity when considering stocks.

Is the US market close to a crash? • Schalk Louw looks at three indicators which address the probability of a US market correction.

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.

Short-sellers are again at the short end • Short-sellers have hoped that a tighter US monetary policy would pull back equity shares, but to no avail. Why is a long view the better option for now?

Outlook on SA inflation • A look at the forces determining price increases in South Africa for the rest of the year.

The dynamics driving US inflation • US-driven global price increases may not be transitory thanks to the dynamics of oil supply.

To buy or not to buy • With so many exchange-traded products listed this year, how do you decide which are worth your time and money?

THE INSIDE VIEW ON JSE OUTFLOWS • SA’s stock market has been bleeding foreign capital lately. What lies behind the outflow and what can be expected from the bourse going forward?

Investor strategies to take advantage of

How does the JSE solve this problem?

TRADING IN AFRICA • The African Continental Free Trade Area agreement will create the largest free trade area in the world. What are the challenges and how can South Africa benefit from it?

Heading investments during volatility • Adriaan Pask, the chief investment officer at PSG Wealth, talks about his tactics to weather storms.

Exhausted and burnt out … at home • Remote work could lead to more cases of burnout among staff. What can businesses do to help their people?

Can employers dismiss workers...