Joining Foord in TenCent – and aware of the “unknown, unknowns”

By Alec Hogg Enjoyed a stimulating few hours at the annual Morningstar Conference in Cape Town yesterday. Topped by listening to two low-profile doyens of the money management business, Dave Foord (Foord AM) and Sandy McGregor (Allan Gray). Foord has spent the last 33 years building his successful business by keeping a tight team, focusing … Read more

SA swoons for R13bn platinum mine promoter Robert Friedland; Steve Jobs warned he’s a con man, charlatan

Mining entrepreneur Robert Friedland is, well, interesting. Listed by Forbes magazine as a billionaire with $1.15bn net worth, Ivanhoe Mining’s founder attracts controversy like horses do flies. A brief Google search uncovers a two year jail sentence for drug dealing; an early US project still ranked the country’s worst contaminator; and, more recently, news of … Read more