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New Legislation
Category: Articles/Development
Consumer protection, personal privacy legislation comes into being, for SA business Governance, Risk and compliance (GRC) will take centre stage in South African businesses over the next few years as ...Thursday, 02 September 2010 -
Being Audited
Category: Articles/Investments
SMEs no longer required to produce annual audits Small- to medium-enterprise companies (SMEs), the majority of which are privately owned or personal liability companies, are no longer required by ...Wednesday, 01 September 2010 -
Insurance costs
Category: Articles/Investments
Insurers take action with brokers Across a broad range of industries companies are looking to cut costs, and insurance companies are no different. Insurers are looking to cut costs by taking a harder ...Friday, 27 August 2010 -
Economic recovery
Category: Articles/Investments
Balance sheet recovery alone not enough When it comes to the question of whether globally the economy is on the recovery path or not and/or if it is heading for a double dip recession or not, the top ...Monday, 23 August 2010 -
Investment in Accounting
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
Accounting made easy There seems to be something in the air - a definite and growing recognition among accountants and small businesses that investment in accounting software and IT in general is one ...Tuesday, 17 August 2010 -
State of pension funds
Category: Articles/Investments
SA funds bug international trend The financial crisis globally left scars on private and public pension systems. In certain cases, the reserves of pension funds have dropped to between 60% and 100% of ...Tuesday, 17 August 2010 -
Business intelligence
Category: Articles/Other
Taking care of business blind spots Businesses are compromising their strategic planning by basing decisions only on data easily accessible within their formal, corporate information systems, and should ...Tuesday, 10 August 2010 -
Investment climate
Category: Articles/Investments
Fear of double-dip recession lingers European confidence in the economic outlook improved to its best level in more than two years, according to the European Commission (EC) in Brussels; but unease and ...Monday, 02 August 2010 -
Mine nationalisation
Category: Articles/Development
Debate alone does serious harm The fact that the African National Congress (ANC) agreed after persistent demands from the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) to place a discussion around the issue of the nationalisation ...Tuesday, 27 July 2010 -
Tax amnesty
Category: Articles/TAX
SARS and SARB disclosure programmes The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) and the South African Revenue Service (SARS) recently announced voluntary disclosure programmes for exchange control contraventions ...Monday, 26 July 2010 -
Media Release
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
RBS offers emergency E9 service free to clients Risk Benefit Solutions (RBS) announced on Monday, 19 July, it is making the Emergency 9 (E9) service - an intelligent location, information and distress ...Monday, 26 July 2010 -
Final word
Category: Articles/Other
Daddy, where do bulls and bears come from? Most people would at least have a basic idea of what the terms bull and bear markets mean. In very short: the one is a market on the up and the other a market ...Monday, 26 July 2010 -
WC benefit
Category: Articles/Investments
SA Wines keep scoring off 2010 tournament While pundits continue to calculate the material value of South Africa’s hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, one of the sectors to have derived a tangible benefit ...Thursday, 15 July 2010 -
The National Credit Regulator
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
Consumer credit demand slowing as credit performance stabilises Credit bureaus create consumer credit profiles based on credit information received from credit providers. The National Credit Regulator ...Thursday, 15 July 2010 -
Ernst & Young launches Banking Index Q2 2010
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
Renewed investor uncertainty keeps banking confidence weak A survey released by Ernst & Young today indicates that although banking profits are slowly recovering from levels seen during the 2008 ...Thursday, 15 July 2010 -
OVERVIEW OF UNIT TRUST RETURNS
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
By Dr Prieur Du Plessis, chairman of Plexus Asset Management and author of the Investment Postcards blog. Global equity markets experienced their third worst quarter of the past eight years as investor ...Tuesday, 13 July 2010 -
Inaugural Africa Leadership Retreat
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
Investing in Africa's expansion With Africa's first-ever soccer World Cup under way, the future of the continent is promising. Business is booming, and it is appropriate that tournament host South Africa ...Monday, 12 July 2010 -
Worth a read?
Category: Articles/Worth a read
The power of networks and the strengths of weak links “Worth a read?” is not your ordinary book review; it is a meta-review. In other words, it provides an overview of the opinions contained in ...Tuesday, 06 July 2010 -
Opinion
Category: Articles/Other
Reliability is key – telecoms in the financial services industry No matter what industry sector an organisation falls into, telecommunications forms the vital backbone of the entire infrastructure, ...Thursday, 01 July 2010 -
Economic overview
Category: Articles/Investments
Signals remain a mixed bag On the economic front, the South African outlook continues to be mixed: gradual recovery from the recession in some spheres with several key economic indicators recording improvement, ...Tuesday, 29 June 2010 -
Currency policy
Category: Articles/Other
Certain changes on the cards A shift in South Africa’s currency policy – long resisted by the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) and the Treasury – may be on the cards later this year. However, it is ...Tuesday, 29 June 2010 -
Investing in an African future
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
New africa CEO to take ernst & young to even greater heights Ernst & Young just announced that it has appointed Ajen Sita as its CEO for Africa, effective 1 July 2010. Ajen succeeds Philip ...Tuesday, 22 June 2010 -
Five year milestone reached
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
TOP PERFORMING CADIZ EQUITY LADDER FUND REACHES FIVE YEAR MILESTONE With assets under management now in excess of R1.5 billion, the Cadiz Equity Ladder Fund celebrated its 5th anniversary on 3 June ...Tuesday, 22 June 2010 -
Worth a read
Category: Articles/Worth a read
The Ascent of Money “Worth a read?” is not your ordinary book review; it is a meta-review. In other words, it provides an overview of the opinions contained in a variety of book reviews published in ...Tuesday, 22 June 2010 -
Financial crisis and morality
Category: Articles/Other
Can a professional oath turn the tide? In this second article on the role of morality - or the lack thereof - in the financial and broader economic crisis in which the world presently finds itself, we ...Monday, 21 June 2010 -
Financial crisis
Category: Articles/Investments
Is the real crisis one of morality? Is the world indeed experiencing a financial crisis, or are the troubling times in which financial markets continually have found themselves since 2008 a mere symptom ...Monday, 14 June 2010 -
Skills development
Category: Articles/Development
Spotlight on scarce financial sector skills Recognising that skills shortages across all sectors of the economy is a constraint to South Africa’s economic growth and development, based on information ...Monday, 14 June 2010 -
Service excellence: a balancing act
Category: Articles/Investments
“The only way to know how customers see your business, is to look at it through their eyes.” – Daniel R. Scroggin Service means different things to different people. Service is also a tangible experience, ...Monday, 31 May 2010 -
Omen or coincidence?
Category: Articles/Other
Do you believe in fate, or perhaps you are a person committed to the simple idea of coincidence? Then again, you could be a lucky so-and-so, someone who believes in luck above all less? Whatever your ...Monday, 31 May 2010 -
It’s a question of trust
Category: Articles/Development
The recession has changed consumer psyche forever Hylton Kallner Globally, many inches of newsprint have been devoted to the impact that the recession has had on the psyche of the average consumer. While ...Monday, 31 May 2010
