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  • ‘Buying’ or taking over a trust

    Created: Tuesday, 08 July 2008 11:22
    Red lights (should) flash after judgementUp to 2002, it was fairly standard (one can even say fashionable) for owners of fixed property in general and residential fixed property in particular not to buy it and have it registered in their own names.The pop...

  • Historic BEE fund closes after outstanding returns

    Created: Wednesday, 25 June 2008 10:39
    Futuregrowth’s Structured Empowerment Fund (SEF), the pioneer of South Africa’s BEE funding vehicles, has achieved annualised returns of 18.76% over its 12-year lifespan. Institutional investors who stayed with the fund since inception have se...

  • Report recommends more competitive banking

    Created: Wednesday, 25 June 2008 10:21
    The Competition Commission today released the Executive Overview and recommendations made by the Banking Enquiry Panel, established in August 2006, to examine the level and structure of bank charges and access to the retail banking sector in South Africa....

  • Deutsche Bank sued for subprime 'fraud'

    Created: Tuesday, 17 June 2008 12:00
    A US bank part-owned by billionaire Warren Buffett is suing Deutsche Bank over risky financial investments of the kind that caused the subprime crisis, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday....

  • Commodities to help African economies take off: Mbeki

    Created: Monday, 09 June 2008 15:22
    The current opportunity for Africa to benefit from the commodityboom is unlikely to be "frittered away" like before, President Thabo Mbeki said on Monday....

  • East Africa's biggest IPO starts trading

    Created: Monday, 09 June 2008 14:17
    Shares in Kenyan mobile service provider Safaricom Ltd. began trading Monday on the Nairobi Stock Exchange in East Africa's biggest-ever IPO, a sign of investor confidence in a country torn apart by deadly post-election violence earlier this year....

  • China's forex hits US$1.76 trillion

    Created: Monday, 02 June 2008 12:49
    China's foreign exchange reserves rose to 1.76 trillion dollars atthe end of April, state media reported Monday, reaching a level higher than the rest of Northeast Asia's combined....

  • Allan Gray

    Created: Thursday, 29 May 2008 23:39
    Dedicated to providing superior investment performance and service excellence Established in 1974, Allan Gray Limited is the largest privately owned investment management firm in Southern Africa. Its clients comprise institutional investors, principa...

  • Anglo Platinum

    Created: Thursday, 29 May 2008 23:38
    Anglo Platinum Limited is listed on the JSE Limited and is the sole listed entity for the Group. It has a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange. International depositary receipts for the Company's shares are listed on the Brussels bourse. The Gr...

  • IDC

    Created: Thursday, 29 May 2008 23:35
    Overview The Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Ltd (IDC) is a self-financing, national Development Finance Institution (DFI). It was established in 1940 to promote economic growth and industrial development in South Africa. At the IDC w...

  • Absa

    Created: Thursday, 29 May 2008 23:34
    Absa Group Limited is one of South Africa's largest financial services organisations, serving personal, commercial and corporate customers in South Africa. The Group interacts with its customers through a combination of physical and electronic chan...

  • NEWSFLASH!

    Created: Tuesday, 27 May 2008 12:57
    As from its upcoming June-edition Blue Chip will be reverting back to being the independent journal that it was before entering into an arrangement with the Financial Planners Institute six  years ago to act as it’s  official mouthpiece.&n...

  • Dubai & Hong Kong in Islamic finance agreement

    Created: Monday, 26 May 2008 15:45
    The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and the Dubai InternationalFinancial Centre Authority (DIFC) announced Monday that they signed anagreement to strengthen cooperation in the development of Islamicfinance....

  • Dept to target non-compliant JSE-listed companies

    Created: Thursday, 15 May 2008 13:41
    By Edwin Tshivhidzo, tel: (012) 314-2454 Cape Town – Government will embark on a drive to ensure Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) listed companies fully comply with employment equity legislation in the next few weeks....

  • Prescribed minimum benefits

    Created: Monday, 05 May 2008 14:57
    One of the main elements of the many changes planned for the healthcare industry is the matter of prescribed minimum benefits (PMBs). There has been a large amount of ongoing debate in this subject....

  • Fast forward to effiency

    Created: Monday, 05 May 2008 14:44
    Business models everywhere are being adjusted, fine-tuned or even dismantled in response to a world that’s changed immensely in a relatively short time....

  • Planners dilemma

    Created: Monday, 05 May 2008 14:31
    South Africans have been transferring money offshore at a rapid rate over the last few months as a result of the negative sentiment at present. We have also seen an increase in the number of discussions about emigration as the experience of crime in tar...

  • Dodging means

    Created: Monday, 05 May 2008 14:21
    Recent research has confirmed that the criteria of the means test used to determine whether people with low incomes qualify for the state old-age pension (SOAP) is discouraging this category of the population to save to make own or supplementary provisio...

  • "Buying" or taking over a trust

    Created: Monday, 05 May 2008 14:17
    Up to 2002, it was fairly standard (one can even say fashionable) for owners of fixed property in general and residential fixed property in particular not to buy it and have it registered in their own names....

  • Confidence high, but...

    Created: Monday, 05 May 2008 14:09
    Life insurance confidence remained strong in the first quarter of 2008, despite slowing business fundamentals and the fact that life assurers’ profits fell sharply, the latest Ernst & Young Insurance financial services index shows....