Citywire South Africa

#Poll: Which South African #assetclass will deliver the highest returns over the next year? Please participate in Citywire SA's quick poll and share your insights on the prospects for local asset classes. Your voice matters! https://lnkd.in/dTxgaCsb

SA #marketsurveillance code of conduct could benefit #assetmanagers and their clients. The voluntary draft code aims to improve #marketintegrity. Those compiling the code of conduct hope to finalise it in 2025, Justin Brown writes. #Regulation Themba Maseko FSCA South Africa Olano Makhubela https://lnkd.in/dZHAq3bb

Are #fundselectors placing too much emphasis on #duediligence? STRATEGIQ Capital’s Rob Enslin, CFA believes that #assetallocation will always be more important than #managerselection when using a #buildingblock approach, Patrick Cairns writes. #fundselection https://lnkd.in/dmYxfzxd

SA #marketsurveillance code of conduct could benefit #assetmanagers and their clients. The voluntary draft code aims to improve #marketintegrity. Those compiling the code of conduct hope to finalise it in 2025, Justin Brown writes. #Regulation Themba Maseko FSCA South Africa Olano Makhubela https://lnkd.in/dZHAq3bb

Abax Investments identifies its best buying opportunity worldwide. ‘I think the best buying opportunities globally are in #Chineseequity.’ Lara Dalmeyer Rush, FRM, CQF explains how Abax is approaching the #opportunity and #risk in #China, Patrick Cairns writes. ‘I think it’s hard to be #bearish on China.’ Amplify Investment Partners https://lnkd.in/dHWcVFSM

South African life #insurers had a combined payout rate of 95.9% in 2023, up from 94.3% in 2022, according to Association for Savings & Investment South Africa (ASISA)'s annual #deathclaims stats. #Asisa explains why 4.1% of claims were declined, with comments from Life and Risk Board Committee member Gareth Friedlander. #Insurance #lifeinsurance #FinanceNews #FinancialPlanning https://lnkd.in/dxtPSBc6

Warren Ingram's latest column deals with the necessity of #financialadvisers making clients more comfortable with uncertainty... 'Any competent #investment adviser knows that good inflation-beating investments must have some volatility. Completely stable returns are a real danger sign and I would avoid any investment that shows a history of beating inflation over the long term without showing significant volatility.... I feel the same about most guaranteed products,' the cofounder of Galileo Capital writes. #Financialplanners, what are your thoughts? #FinancialInsights #InvestmentInsights #IFAs #WealthManagers

Simon Evan-Cook: PMs need to be more #Bueller and less #Rooney. 'Yes, you have to be ##competitive, but there is a right way and a wrong way.' #Competition is one of the great driving forces of human progress but of nature itself. #opinion https://lnkd.in/dzQxNbYM

The Financial Intelligence Centre (#FIC) finds #lawfirms the least compliant in completing #risk returns. The FIC published a list of sectors that failed to submit risk and #compliance returns on time, or not at all, Jaco Visser writes. #regulation #greylist Herbert Smith Freehills Ninety One Hendrik du Toit Peter Armitage Andrew Bahlmann Deal Leaders International https://lnkd.in/dn8N3zsD

Stonehage Fleming announces 13 key #promotions. The #familyoffice also announced a new #appointment. #peoplemoves #newhire Thiam Marais Guy Brukman CA Mark Allan Swart CA(SA) TEP Priyanka Hindocha Hattie Graham Eleana Watts Monean Winterbach Sumari Naudé Lylanie . Cora Binchy Tanja Bernat Giuseppe Ciucci https://lnkd.in/dfcW27sH