02/10/2014

Shake up retail branches with franchise model?

The franchise model can turn the top-down corporate model upside down, since franchisees may actually become aggressive critics of how their customers are approached, with little patience for ineffective internal procedures.

02/07/2014

Zimbabwe: More currencies won’t revive economy

THE addition of several currencies, to those already in use — United States dollars, South Africa rand and others — by the Reserve Bank last week, though welcome, will not do much to alleviate the economic crisis the country is facing, analyst

02/05/2014

What makes a good asset manager?

This feeds into views shared by Dave Foord of Foord Asset Management. For him the most valued quality in an asset manager is independent thought. The Foord Equity Fund and Foord Balanced Fund, both of which he co-manages, are both in the top five of their

02/03/2014

Why Nigeria Must Trade More With Africa

According to experts, Nigeria’s catch up to South Africa will be confirmed by the results of a planned rebasing of the country’s gross domestic product, with the new figures to be made known in early 2014.

01/31/2014

Mobius Prefers Nigerian Banks to South African Peers on Value

Mark Mobius, chairman of Templeton Emerging Markets Group, is picking Nigerian bank stocks ahead of South African peers as Johannesburg-based lenders battle rising bad-debt charges while trading at higher valuations.http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-0

01/29/2014

Is this an emerging markets crisis or not?

The time of reckoning is here for emerging markets. After benefiting from ultra-low interest rates and sluggish growth in developed economies in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, these markets are no longer looking so hot.

01/24/2014

Kalmer ditched by Nedbank

Top South African road runner Rene Kalmer will not be running in Nedbank colours this year, after her contract was not renewed for the 2014 season

01/23/2014

How to profit from the emerging markets crisis

Lazard’s Paul Rogers explains how the group is positioning its portfolio in this tough period for the market and looking for opportunities in undervalued consumer discretionary stocks.

01/21/2014

Kenya’s Banking Revolution Lights a Fire

Those models are certainly valid: The “Asian Tigers” lifted millions of people out of poverty by relying on an efficient public sector based on rigid meritocracy and little tolerance for corruption.