In this weeks investment note, Old Mutual Wealth Investment Strategist, Izak Odendaal, discusses South Africa's 2023 GDP, highlighting economic challenges like power cuts and logistics bottlenecks. Despite headwinds, prospects improve with declining inflation and potential infrastructure reforms.

As interest rates potentially decline, the era of easy money seems to wane. Amid global economic slowdown concerns, investing in resilient companies becomes crucial, offering stability and dividends in uncertain times.

Sunette Mulder, a senior policy adviser at ASISA, reports on South Africa's Collective Investment Schemes (CIS) industry's record-high assets under management, market performance, investor trends, and offshore portfolio developments in 2023.

At M&G Investments, we are dedicated to increasing the numbers of talented individuals in South Africa’s financial services industry and cultivating and nurturing that talent. One of our key initiatives is the M&G Investment Analyst Graduate Programme, which was launched in 2021.

Life offices and asset managers represented by the Association for Savings and Investment South Africa (ASISA) have made encouraging progress towards achieving the relevant transformation targets set by the Amended Financial Sector Code (FSC).

South Africa may very well be at the brink of a new era, where a greater focus on public private partnerships (PPPs) can help to address the country’s multiple challenges.