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Consumer Protection
Category: Articles/Investments
... retailers should not take this for granted. “Even when dealing with trading partners steeped in a tradition of consumer protection, South African companies need to satisfy themselves that the products ...Friday, 10 September 2010 -
Wealth management
Category: Articles/Other
... in Zurich last week, the head of Barclays Wealth Management’s private-banking unit, Gerard Aquilina, appeared to issue a red alert about the richest of clients. “Beware of the complexities of dealing ...Thursday, 09 September 2010 -
Profile of 21st century leadership
Category: Articles/Development
... major role in leadership. To learn how to work together requires a great deal of trust between and among leaders and members of an emerging team. Trust is built upon actions and not merely on words. ...Thursday, 09 September 2010 -
Lessons and opportunity from crisis environment
Category: Articles/Other
... may be born out of the ashes of the current financial crisis, it will need to grow organically, ideally from the bottom up and with participation from different sectors. Foundations should limit themselves ...Wednesday, 08 September 2010 -
Immense opportunities in Africa
Category: Articles/Development
... “Economics” (dealing with “systems of wealth production and exchange of goods and services, patterns of consumption”), demographer Dr Bärbel Haldenwang of the Institute for Futures Research (IFR) sketched ...Wednesday, 08 September 2010 -
Being Audited
Category: Articles/Investments
... have the right to choose whether to have the company's annual financial statements audited or independently reviewed. Many of the provisions of the new Companies Act, especially those dealing with private ...Wednesday, 01 September 2010 -
Insurance costs
Category: Articles/Investments
... the number of insures they deal with and therefore choose one or two insures who will offer them a good product range and proper service levels. Intermediaries are a person or institution empowered to ...Friday, 27 August 2010 -
Tax amnesty
Category: Articles/TAX
... from criminal prosecution. SARS cannot already have been aware of the default disclosed, although there are provisions to deal with audits in progress. The SARB and SARS programmes both contain provisions ...Monday, 26 July 2010 -
Opinion
Category: Articles/Other
... makes understanding between parties difficult, especially when dealing multi-nationally with different accents and ways of speaking. This again affects productivity negatively by making it difficult for ...Thursday, 01 July 2010 -
Financial crisis and morality
Category: Articles/Other
... unfolding today, management had ceased to be guided by the ideals of a profession. What would it take to return management to a professional footing and refocus managers on creating long-term sustainable ...Monday, 21 June 2010 -
Financial crisis
Category: Articles/Investments
... people to take out loans they couldn’t afford; distinguished investment houses peddled deals to their clients they themselves wouldn’t consider investing in; and officers at those same institutions continued ...Monday, 14 June 2010 -
It’s a question of trust
Category: Articles/Development
... based on this data, ensuring that clients’ queries are dealt with more effectively. For Discovery Life, which has far fewer interactions with clients than Discovery Health, the most service intensive ...Monday, 31 May 2010 -
Client service in wealth management industry
Category: Articles/Other
... advisers received a great deal of new business from word-of-mouth referrals (up to 53% of new clients). Even though 53% sounds like much, this is an area that creates huge opportunity for new business ...Monday, 31 May 2010 -
Needed: customer-friendly processes
Category: Articles/Other
... of the relationship they are being asked. Ideally, the intermediary, product provider and client seem to function optimally where a defined service partnership is struck. This would entail that service ...Monday, 31 May 2010 -
Editor's Note
Category: Articles/Editors Notes
... dealings with clients. If you think we can improve on our service to you, our reader, please feel free to e-mail me your comments, criticism or suggestions: jurievdm@bjm.co.za ...Monday, 31 May 2010 -
Worlds Focus
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
... all of whom will be represented at the meeting. The Minister of Trade and Industry, Rob Davies, will present the opening keynote address when he will deal with, ‘How prudent financial regulation helped ...Wednesday, 24 March 2010 -
Closing in on lease loss claims
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has recently released a new interpretation note, dealing with the limitation of allowances granted to lessors of certain assets. The limitation in question is ...Friday, 19 March 2010 -
Tax matters
Category: Articles/Investments
Closing in on lease loss claims The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has recently released a new interpretation note, dealing with the limitation of allowances granted to lessors of certain assets. ...Thursday, 18 March 2010 -
Old friends
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
Dinamark, a specialist wholesaler supplying lawnmower spares, accessories and equipment to dealers who repair and sell outdoor power equipment, has found a winning formula. Since its inception in 1986, ...Monday, 15 February 2010 -
Mauritius
Category: Articles/Investments
... is increasingly being recognised as the ideal hub for bridging investments in the booming Asian and promising African markets. The global business sector currently contributes an average of 3% to GDP and ...Thursday, 04 February 2010 -
Asset management
Category: Articles/Banking
Dealing with financial aftershocks While there are increasing signs that the world is emerging from the deep 2008/2009 economic recession, there are also plenty of signs that the impact of the recession ...Tuesday, 02 February 2010 -
If it ain’t broke
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
... ERP 500 5.5 is ideal for companies requiring a functionally-rich, highly scalable system that supports international business infrastructures,” says Keith Fenner, Sales Director at Softline Accpac. “Delivering ...Wednesday, 27 January 2010 -
Focus on CIPRO
Category: Articles/Investments
... Meanwhile, many professionals such as lawyers who deal with CIPRO on a daily basis have become highly frustrated with the lack of service. Fraud and corruption CIPRO is plagued also by widespread ...Tuesday, 26 January 2010 -
Woman power
Category: Articles/Other
... and it has been designed to facilitate the jump to senior leadership by grooming proven women managers to become contemporary leaders able to deal with the complex and ever changing business world of today. ...Monday, 25 January 2010 -
Opinion piece
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
... possible echo. The small size forces talkers to remain close to microphones and places them closer to the loudspeaker. An ideal solution would be a conference phone with five to seven feet of microphone ...Monday, 25 January 2010 -
Lingering financial crisis
Category: Articles/Other
... to achieve – and proposes a non-operating holding company structure (NOHC). These reforms are essential to deal with contagion and counterparty risk, which are so integral to the 'too big to fail' issue, ...Tuesday, 19 January 2010 -
Epidemics and 2010 cancellations
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
... to deal with epidemic risk and infection: • A general business interruption cover providing compensation in the event of mass cancelation due to events that have happened elsewhere, and, • A ...Tuesday, 12 January 2010 -
Sister Sites
Category: Static Site Content/Static Site Content
... express their views, fears and hopes, without those being travestied by truncation, or refracted through the idealogical prism of the commentariat. Over the last 26 years Leadership has acted as a nexus ...Monday, 14 December 2009 -
Not-so-private equity
Category: Articles/Investments
... in the music business, EMI. Completed in March 2007, it is one of its largest investments, and as part of the deal, EMI group owes around £2.6bn to Citigroup, now 34% owned by the United States government. ...Monday, 07 December 2009 -
The day after
Category: Articles/Investments
Assessing the post-crisis investment landscape The policy cures that have been adopted to deal with the recession are made of the same poison that caused the crisis. The post-crisis world demands policy ...Monday, 07 December 2009
