04/28/2020
South Africa: Nation's Richest 3,500 Own More Than the Bottom 32 Million
The new research has brought to light the staggering reality of how much is owned in South Africa, and just how few people actually own it.
Wealth and Asset Management
04/27/2020
Review of the Week: Too much oil
Crazy phenomena like negative oil prices will keep popping up over the coming months warns our chief investment officer Julian Chillingworth. Investors will ignore most of it, but when they do panic, stocks could return to their March lows.
04/24/2020
Kruger Shalati – An ultra luxury train hotel that will be stationed on a bridge in South Africa’s iconic Kruger national park
Each of the glass-walled, large train rooms further provides panoramic views along the length of the majestic Sabie River
04/22/2020
Why brand building is essential in times of precarity
The key to the popularity of these durable advertising campaigns was that they exercised a ‘feel good’ factor and prompted memories of better times.
04/22/2020
Spotlight on succession planning in Africa
Considering the prevalence of family-owned businesses across the continent, family offices are well placed to facilitate the protection and transmission of wealth.
04/21/2020
Machine Learning for non-bankable asset investing
The first bridge to cross for operating non-bankable assets in a wealth management frame is to value them ex-post accurately, which is to be able to provide a reasonably accurate estimate of their price today.
04/21/2020
UBS raises its gold price forecast to $1,800
The price of gold in rand rose as much as 1.6 percent to the highest since Bloomberg began tracking in 1971.
04/16/2020
Poor wealth forecasts for South Africa due to COVID-19: SA Wealth Report
According to the report’s in-house prime property indices, South Africa’s residential property market performed poorly over the review period (2009 to 2019)
04/16/2020
Managers of Wealth Appreciates Its Advertisers
We’d like to express gratitude to our fantastic sponsors here at Managers of Wealth.
04/16/2020
How we can all embrace philanthropy's true value in a crisis
Philanthropy effectively underscores the need for a sustained collective effort to overcome the scourge of the virus.
04/16/2020
FNB Wealth and Investments donates trade revenues to the Solidarity Fund
The Solidarity Fund is an umbrella platform to enable all South Africans to contribute to the fight against Covid-19.
04/16/2020
Keep moving and motivated with #cando
We’re creating a series of active and wellbeing videos, working with the fantastic TeamedUp and their Olympic and Paralympic athletes
04/14/2020
Objectway offers Licence Free Period for WealthTech Suite
The rapid escalation of COVID-19 outbreak has forced us to test our business continuity plans
04/13/2020
How Angolan Elites Built a Private Banking Network to Move Their Riches Into the European Union
The network sent at least $324 million through its banks, with most of the funds originating in Angola.
04/01/2020
COVID-19 special: Spotlight on sectors
The Nikko AM team has provided a brief outline of some of the issues that we see across the major sectors.
03/31/2020
How SA’s dollar-billionaires saw their fortunes decimated in 2020
It's been a rough ride for all of South Africa's dollar-billionaires this month, with Patrice Motsepe especially affected. Here are the grisly details.
03/26/2020
Consider risk appetite before investment decision – Wealth manager at StanChart
The banker explained that this was why at Standard Chartered before a client signs up for any investment package, it is mandatory to first check the customer’s risk appetite.
03/24/2020
Covid-19: South Africa’s Investec estimates up to 23% hit on profit
He also expects the situation to improve in the following few months.
03/24/2020
6 trends driving investment into Africa
Africa has drawn high levels of interest from a diverse range of external partners in recent years
03/22/2020
Old Mutual clocks a bruising 5 years
First was the complex three-year "managed separation" process, which ended in June 2018