The lost decade and how your wealth has evaporated – Magnus Heystek
Magnus Heystek has been beating the drum on offshore diversification and exposure to global equity markets for the better part of a decade.
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Prudential CEO Bernard Fick outlines ownership changes
Prudential CEO Bernard Fick joined the BizNews Power Hour, speaking to the team about changes to one of the country’s largest investment managers.
Discovery succeeds by following Kenny Rogers school of business strategy.
Students of business quickly learn how success stems from achieving the right balance. Obviously in the rate of growth and allocation of resources.
Anchor Capital: Essential market review, 11 May
Anchor Capital provides a comprehensive market review covering everything you need to know about local and global markets.
Adrian Gore: Discovery has the chassis – now watch us grow
Discovery unveiled a surprise: it will be allocating buying an extra 55% of Discovery Card (for R1.35bn) and injecting a further R800m into that business.
Michael R. Bloomberg: Billy Salomon led Wall Street by example
With the exception of my parents, no one had a bigger impact on my life and career than Billy Salomon, who died Sunday at 100.
African insurers in vogue as incomes rise
A growing middle class in sub-Saharan Africa is enticing European and SA insurers to buy local firms focusing on life insurance, in the face of strong competition.
Leapfrog: 40% a year profit betting on an African financial services dream
Enjoyed the company of two really smart cookies during CNBC Africa Power Lunch today. Gary Herbert is the co-founder of Investment Solutions, a financial services pioneer that’s now a key profit contributor at Alexander Forbes. His colleague Dominic Liber is an actuary, one of a dozen that work at Leapfrog, the $535m private equity fund … Read more
Applying the lateral thinking that started an Internet Bank to SA’s education crisis
I met Bob Head in 2005 when he was parachuted into South Africa by Old Mutual to sort out its local subsidiaries. At the time Nedbank was recovering after almost going bust (Big Green had to pump in billions to stabilise the ship); Mutual & Federal was still a separately listed entity; and OMSA had … Read more