02/11/2014
UBA top banks effectively using social media
The objective of the popular ranking, according to the report, is to gain insight into which individuals and brands the public recognize as effective social media advocates and practitioners.
Comment, Analysis & Research
02/10/2014
Global asset base predicted to pass $100 trillion barrier by 2020
Assets managed around the world will rise from $63.9 trillion today to $101.7 trillion in just six years, led by growing riches in emerging markets and the expansion of sovereign funds
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
02/07/2014
Is fear in emerging markets hedge funds unwarranted?
Those targeting markets in Africa and the Middle East were able to post strong returns during the month, picking up where they left off after an excellent 2013.
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
02/05/2014
Cold Turkey - by Johannes Oehri, Financial Economist from LGT Capital Management
Global financial markets have been very nervous since mid of January.
02/04/2014
Senior Management Increasing Efforts Globally To Combat Money Laundering
Attention being paid by senior management to money laundering challenges is at an all time high according to findings from a new KPMG International report.
02/04/2014
Coutts' commentary - Global View from Asia - Emerging markets - crisis what crisis?
While there are undoubtedly strains in some emerging markets, to read the headlines would suggest there was a pending meltdown.
02/03/2014
East Africa growth to outpace many emerging markets in 2014
East Africa's progress in becoming an oil and gas hub will put economic growth on a stronger footing this year while favourable weather supports its agricultural sector
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.
02/03/2014
South Africa's competitive advantage in the developing world
When the United Nations Development Programme published its Human Development Report in 2013, it contained powerful insights about the increasingly important role developing countries.
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
01/30/2014
KPMG Report Identifies How Banks Can Grow the Top Line in 2014
"The banks that embrace change and systematically transform themselves to become more customer-centric will achieve a competitive advantage in the marketplace."
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.
01/28/2014
South African Bank Ratings Threatened by Sovereign Cut, S&P Says
The company said it doesn’t expect to raise bank ratings this year.
01/24/2014
Eight-Year Global Economic Expansion Expected Says BNY Mellon's Richard Hoey
While Hoey believes that inflation will rise eventually, he thinks it will drift higher only gradually over the coming years and that governments and central banks will be tolerant of that gradual upward drift in inflation.
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.
01/22/2014
CEOs more confident on global economy - PwC
But finding that growth has gotten tougher.