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Consumer Protection
Category: Articles/Investments
... the implications of importing products and for foreign companies to be aware of their obligations,” says Eric Levenstein, director and product liability specialist at corporate and commercial law firm ...Friday, 10 September 2010 -
Audit regime for companies to change
Category: Articles/Other
The alternatives to audits under new Companies Act The anticipated commencement date for the new Companies Act is expected to be 1 October 2010. If the draft regulations are promulgated as they stand, ...Thursday, 09 September 2010 -
Immense opportunities in Africa
Category: Articles/Development
... companies – needs to be rooted out. He outlined two preconditions for South Africa’s economic growth: • Developing legitimate and effective leadership and governance, based on the rule of law; and ...Wednesday, 08 September 2010 -
Caution is the name of the game
Category: Articles/Editors Notes
... Europe’s economic prospects seem to be improving, as companies – from major banks to luxury goods manufacturers – have surprised with the profits they were able to post. Growth in services and general ...Wednesday, 08 September 2010 -
New Legislation
Category: Articles/Development
... are correctly skilled and aware of consumer rights). "Now is the time for companies in South Africa to begin to embrace and enhance their organisation's commitment to its GRC policies and systems. At ...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 -
State of pension funds
Category: Articles/Investments
... national output. By way of comparison, that is the ratio of the national debt to output in some advanced countries. Brazilian and South African companies were the only ones in overall surplus on this score, ...Tuesday, 17 August 2010 -
Business intelligence
Category: Articles/Other
... and simultaneously uncover the relationships that exist within this mass of data. Visual information systems enable companies to uncover key relationships hidden in large, complex, dynamic information ...Tuesday, 10 August 2010 -
Investment climate
Category: Articles/Investments
... prospects seem to be improving as companies - from major banks to luxury goods manufacturers - have surprised with the profits they were able to post. Growth in services and general manufacturing also ...Monday, 02 August 2010 -
Mine nationalisation
Category: Articles/Development
... needs to be addressed. The executive secretary of the Tanzananian Chamber of Minerals and Energy concurred with this sentiment, saying that often mining companies from abroad leave local communities with ...Tuesday, 27 July 2010 -
OVERVIEW OF UNIT TRUST RETURNS
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
... tables were topped by the Domestic - Equity - Financial category with 28,85%, followed by the Domestic - Equity - Smaller Companies category with 27,21%. The worst sector over the past year was the Foreign ...Tuesday, 13 July 2010 -
Currency policy
Category: Articles/Other
... mining companies, while some sectors such as the clothing and textile industry were unable to compete with cheaper imports. This prompted a group of local manufacturers and South Africa’s three largest ...Tuesday, 29 June 2010 -
Investing in an African future
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
... commitment and success in developing home grown talent. Sita joined Ernst & Young in 1993 as a trainee accountant with initial focus on entrepreneurial growth companies and later developing deep experience ...Tuesday, 22 June 2010 -
It’s a question of trust
Category: Articles/Development
... offerings that attract new clients and retain them for our business. The issue of service is therefore no longer a ‘soft issue’ in our industry. It is the battleground upon which companies must compete ...Monday, 31 May 2010 -
Client service in wealth management industry
Category: Articles/Other
... of the adviser and those of the client. • Companies need to develop more robust and transparent risk management capabilities. Diligent risk assessments will assist advisers in making suitable investment ...Monday, 31 May 2010 -
Keeping pace in a fast-changing world
Category: Articles/Other
... investors look for companies with which they can identify and will not hesitate to cancel a policy and move elsewhere if their needs are not being met. Lifestyles are changing and overlapping, and it ...Monday, 31 May 2010 -
Seven steps to winning at service
Category: Articles/Development
... a South African service provider. Every year, I work with companies and individuals who grapple with the task of becoming client centric. In order to exhort my clients to ‘think customer’, I ask ...Monday, 31 May 2010 -
Needed: customer-friendly processes
Category: Articles/Other
... Contact Council reveals that while 96.7% of the 1 822 surveyed companies believe that customer feedback is very important for designing appropriate service solutions, 76.6% of the same group is not satisfied ...Monday, 31 May 2010 -
Opinion: Unit Trusts and ETFs Differences
Category: Articles/Investments
... the converse is true in a bear market as unit trusts hold cash and can invest more in defensive cash-rich companies. Equity unit trusts have outperformed equity ETFs over the last nine ...Tuesday, 25 May 2010 -
Investment opinion
Category: Articles/Investments
... come along to invest heavily in value situations such as high-quality companies with sustainable earnings and high prospective dividend yields. We do not know if we will have a tremendous investing opportunity ...Tuesday, 18 May 2010 -
Kerkoff to Invest in SA
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
... revenues of about €28m and 215 employees. Kerkhoff has its headquarters in Düsseldorf, Germany, and offices in eight other countries from which it advises industrial companies in mass and made-to-order ...Thursday, 06 May 2010 -
Sales Force Investment
Category: Articles/Investments
Maximising return on sales force investment According to the newspaper headlines, the recession is over. Yet many companies are still experiencing sluggish revenue growth and finding it difficult ...Wednesday, 24 March 2010 -
Managing debt in tough times
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
... purchasing reinsurance for debtors’ cover remains high. Regarding South Africa’s export businesses, the tough trading conditions in the first quarter of 2009 saw many foreign companies’ credit lines ...Wednesday, 24 March 2010 -
Insurance Risks
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
... is becoming more complex it is not impossible if done under professional advice, with due regard to local regulations in concert with a well structured global programme. “Companies which take short cuts ...Wednesday, 10 March 2010 -
Social and ethics issues
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
Thou shalt be ethical The draft Companies Regulations, published in December 2009, require public and state-owned companies to appoint a social and ethics committee, as well as a social and ethics ...Friday, 05 March 2010 -
Alexander Forbes
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
... Thus two insurance companies in the Alexander Forbes Group – Guardrisk Life and Guardrisk Insurance – are celebrating after having their ratings reaffirmed. Guardrisk Insurance has again ...Friday, 05 March 2010 -
New online platform
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
... with the various unit trust management companies is passed back entirely to the investing client. Brummer says that by removing the upfront fee consumers are effectively now in charge of their own investment ...Friday, 05 March 2010 -
Softline VIP
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
Correct interpretation of changes in taxation of medical aid is essential, says Softline VIP With the new financial year imminent, companies should take care to verify that their payroll service providers ...Friday, 26 February 2010 -
What you need to know about the 2010 budget
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
... the document should be. “This will in turn have the effect of encouraging trade as companies have greater certainty regarding the tax implications of cross-border trade.” In a similar vein, government ...Tuesday, 23 February 2010
