South African bonds have delivered impressive gains, supported by improving inflation dynamics, supportive global conditions and renewed investor interest. Duayne le Roux explains why local bonds may still offer attractive real returns, while cautioning that smart risk management remains essential in the months ahead.
Not All Insurance is Created Equal! The founding partners of Cross Country Insurance Consultants realised this and set out to create an insurance product specifically for the 4×4 market.
Momentum Investments have released their report based on ‘SARB keeps its foot firmly on the pedal and hikes rates by 75bps’ prepared by the Momentum Macro Research Team.
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) delivered a 75 basis point (bp) repo rate hike, as expected by the analyst consensus. This takes the repo rate to 6.25% and the prime lending rate to 9.75%.
We find ourselves in a situation considered almost unthinkable in a pre-pandemic world, as we hear dusty old phrases like “overheating”, “behind the curve”, and “wage-price spir...
Business Partners’ SME Index for 2022’s first quarter listed a lack of skills as one of the most prominent challenges to the growth of the SME sector....
While we had expected the SARB to be more sensitive to the fragile domestic growth backdrop, the bank is firmly focused on inflation and ensuring its credibility remains intact....
