Search
Search Result
-
Profile of 21st century leadership
Category: Articles/Development
... of being a success in the business world. Much has been written about leadership: rules, pointers, styles, and biographies of inspiring leaders throughout world history. But there are certain leadership ...Thursday, 09 September 2010 -
Ernst & Young launches Banking Index Q2 2010
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
... their lowest ever confidence reading in the close on nine year history of the index.’ He adds, ‘ The 2nd quarter of 2010 was a tough one for the financial services sector, across the globe. Renewed investor ...Thursday, 15 July 2010 -
Worth a read
Category: Articles/Worth a read
... the media at large. This week, we take a look at The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, written by Niall Ferguson and published in June 2009. What is it all about? Even the ill-informed ...Tuesday, 22 June 2010 -
Client service in wealth management industry
Category: Articles/Other
Survey reports tell the story Elke Pienaar When reading the World Wealth Reports by Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) recently, I noticed that quality client service was by far ...Monday, 31 May 2010 -
Sovereign debt
Category: Articles/Investments
... the pinch. Africa was officially in recession, albeit not as hard hit as the big global economies, due to it not really being part of the mainstream. A global sovereign debt crisis will be another story, ...Tuesday, 25 May 2010 -
Global economy in trouble?
Category: Articles/Other
... are priced. This status seems to be something of the past. For the first time in living history, some corporate bonds have become cheaper than what the US Treasury has to offer. Last week, Berkshire ...Monday, 29 March 2010 -
Investment outlook
Category: Articles/Investments
... – and one of the most devastating falls in the history of stockmarkets around the world. The five-year figures – the minimum time one should consider an investment in the market – show healthy returns ...Wednesday, 17 February 2010 -
Bank regulation
Category: Articles/Banking
... up by the future. The present-day dilemma is not without precedent. With the history of banking dating back to at least the 18th century BC, there are plenty of lessons to be found in the past. A relatively ...Tuesday, 02 February 2010 -
Tax on car sales
Category: Articles/Investments
... emerging from one of the deepest and most severe recessions in its history, and the introduction of additional taxes… could, if they are too punitive, result in the industry lapsing into recession." How ...Tuesday, 19 January 2010 -
BI is a welcome twist in the tale
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
Barbi Goldblatt, Managing Director, EOH Western Cape, says many business leaders predict that the successor of the information age will be the storytelling age. But to tell meaningful stories, managers ...Monday, 18 January 2010 -
The day after
Category: Articles/Investments
... monetised in many of these economies. For the US, this printing of money has resulted in money supply more than doubling between 2008 and 2009. Moreover, from history we know that excess debt and consumption ...Monday, 07 December 2009 -
Post-crisis or in crisis – what to do?
Category: Articles/Development
... to the feeling that it would probably cook to death. We all know the story. I believe that in South Africa, we were told initially that the financial crisis was an “American one” and that the South African ...Monday, 07 December 2009 -
Getting the reporting right
Category: Articles/Investments
... often). This leads to the concept of a “reporting gap”. Financial reporting has a long history. Reporting on risk management and internal control is a little more recent. But if you take a look at the ...Monday, 07 December 2009 -
Post-crisis investment
Category: Articles/Investments
... United States treasury bills were perceived as the only port of safety and yields were driven into negative territory. History will show that the crisis was averted when global authorities vowed to do ...Monday, 07 December 2009 -
Learning from history
Category: Articles/Investments
The best post-crisis advice If there is one thing with which financial intermediaries can assist their clients, it is to encourage them to learn from history, writes Marize Pieters. As recently ...Monday, 07 December 2009 -
Offshore investment – commentator
Category: Articles/Investments
... South Africans consistently have been reducing their exposure to offshore assets, during a time when they have become arguably more attractive than South African assets. A lesson from history We examined ...Monday, 30 November 2009 -
Worth a read
Category: Articles/Other
... story of the drama behind the scenes which triggered the greatest global financial crisis since the Great Depression of the early 1930s – a meta-review. What is it all about? In September 2008, global ...Tuesday, 17 November 2009 -
Investments
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
... update in Cape Town, Orbis analysts Jonathan Brodie and Trevor Black said there are many ways to make money and many successful managers, but history shows that, on average, managers often place too much ...Monday, 02 November 2009 -
Tax Break
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
... The individual will take over the tax history of the primary residence. This means that he will be treated as having acquired the primary residence on the same date as the company or trust, for the same ...Wednesday, 21 October 2009 -
South African Recession
Category: Articles/Other
... had jumped from 39.3 to 48 last month – its highest level since May last year. This also was the second biggest rise in the history of this index. Once it passes the 50 mark, manufacturing – the second ...Tuesday, 06 October 2009 -
Worth a read
Category: Articles/Worth a read
... may do well to read "Managing the Dragon" together with Tim Clissold's "Mr. China: A Memoir". "Mr. China" tells the story of the costly misadventures of Clissold's boss, an American investment banker who ...Tuesday, 22 September 2009 -
Focus on
Category: Articles/Banking
... first northerner nominated for this post in Nigeria’s history. Following Sanusi’s confirmation hearing on 3 June 2009, the Senate unanimously accepted his nomination effective the following day. With ...Monday, 14 September 2009 -
National Health Insurance
Category: Articles/Other
... Polokwane, December 2007, go to: http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/conf/conference52/index.html In June this year, the ANC published an article in its online newsletter, ANC Today, about its envisaged ...Tuesday, 08 September 2009 -
The competitive edge
Category: Articles/Other
... will inevitably lose their competitive edge in the modern-day economy. Or so the story goes. Let us first examine whether we are indeed experiencing an information explosion John ...Wednesday, 02 September 2009 -
The Root of the Crisis
Category: Articles/Development
... the risks correctly, much pain could have been avoided. It is interesting how an emotion such as greed can override reason. In his book, Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk, Peter L. Bernstein ...Wednesday, 26 August 2009 -
Political change brings risk
Category: Articles/Other
... that existed in KwaZulu-Natal in the early and mid-1990s. If this ‘history’ is taken into account, there is reason to be less cynical about Zuma’s bridge-building attempts to diverse sections of the South ...Wednesday, 26 August 2009 -
Political change brings risks
Category: Articles/Other
... and mid-1990s. If this ‘history’ is taken into account, there is reason to be less cynical about Zuma’s bridge-building attempts to diverse sections of the South African community. However, the markets ...Monday, 03 August 2009 -
The world according to the gospel of Google
Category: Articles/International Trends
Piet Coetzer reviews Jeff Jarvis’s book, What Would Google Do?, in which he sets out to re-engineer the remarkable success story of the Internet economy and applies it to other companies and industries. ...Wednesday, 01 July 2009 -
COLUMN: Investors and entrepreneurs
Category: Articles/Investments
... we need the money makers the most because they give the engine that vital kick-start. For them it is also more difficult, but the most challenging is usually the most rewarding. The moral of the story ...Wednesday, 01 July 2009 -
Foreword: Emotional armour
Category: Articles/Other
... tough time, remembering that it is not so different from other such times in history. While the tissues may help manage the short-term emotions of clients, there is no doubt that robustly defined objectives ...Wednesday, 01 July 2009
