Managers of Wealth Africa

South Africa must reform competition regulation to spur growth - World Bank

The World Bank estimates Africa's most industrialised economy will grow at only 0.8 percent in 2016

Investec Offers Juiciest Returns of South Africa's Banks: Chart

The company, founded in Johannesburg, this year traded at the deepest discount to its target price since the 2008 global financial crisis.

PwC questions asset managers’ response to tech fears

Gathering the responses from 189 chief executives at fund groups in 39 countries, 90 per cent say they are “confident” or “very confident” about revenue growth for the year ahead

Global Pension Assets Study 2016

Pension assets relative to GDP reached 80% in 2015, which represents a decrease of 4% from the 2014 ratio of 84% The largest pension markets are the US, UK and Japan with 62%, 9% and 8% of total pension assets in the study, respectively

Offshore funds burst through Reserve Bank limits

The controls allow an additional 5% to be invested in African assets, while collective investment schemes may invest up to 35% in foreign assets.

Rand driven by global environment

Can you elaborate and how do you see the rand affecting investments in 2016?

Zimbabwe's economy weighed down by policies

Some of the reforms include attempts to make the controversial Indigenisation and Empowerment Act investor friendly.

Renewables in Africa - Linklaters

As renewable energy becomes more affordable, there are signs that some markets in sub-Saharan Africa would leapfrog fossil fuels technology and that Africa’s economic development could actually be driven by renewable energy technology.

Dear investors, the SA system is working

What Nkandla shows us about our democracy

South Africa's property market, vehicle sales face squeeze as interest rates rise

Africa's most industrialised economy is in the grip of a worsening growth outlook.

South African economy to slow, weighed down by policy, drought - World Bank

The forecast brought the Bank in line with the International Monetary Fund, which in December halved its 2016 growth forecast for South Africa to 0.7 percent.

African private equity investment slides 69%

Commodity-induced slowdown hurts activity but fundraising jumps

Standard Bank is Africa’s most valuable banking brand

Standard Bank was the only local bank to grow its brand value from $1,2 billion R19,4 billion to $1,3 billion R21 billion as Absa

Gordhan, CEOs meet over ratings

There is deep concern over how a downgrade would affect South Africa's cost of borrowing, the financial markets, business and on the country's citizens.

Development capital boosts African infrastructure

This is good news in the context of the globally squeezed construction sector, and the dismal state that many JSE-listed infrastructure companies find themselves in.

South African Bonds Poised for Gains After Worst Year on Record

That’s a turnaround from last year, when rand bonds lost 3 percent, the most since at least 1998, when records began, and only the second time since then that they didn’t make money, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch indexes.

Property can save South African investors from rand woes – here’s how

This week new figures published by Cape Town-based Catalyst Fund Managers revealed that property in 2015 was South Africa’s leading investment class.

Property can save South African investors from rand woes – here’s how

South Africa’s economic outlook makes for grim reading ─ and investors have felt an urgent need to take action.

Africa appeals to the discerning

While once alluring sovereign growth prospects have diminished in the face of falling commodity prices and currency devaluations

Uganda Has Space for More Banks - CBA Boss

We started here with a very stable market especially on the exchange rate.

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