Finweek - English

Finweek is South Africa’s leading financial weekly magazine focusing on investment. With its brisk, creative and authoritative analysis of business and investment issues, it’s an essential business tool in the daily battle for competitive advantage. Today's business decision-makers have to cope with increased pressure on their time and are expected, more than ever before, to succeed in the face of stiffer competition. Finweek provides relevant information in quick bytes, along with award-winning investment advice.

from the editor

The future of sport • Covid-19 has had a dismal effect on the sport industry, but technology is creating huge opportunities in this sector.

How to turn around a continent • Will a Marshall Plan for Africa combined with an enormous free-trade agreement be the tonic for the economic ailments among the continent’s nations?

Finweek - English

in brief

“Much-needed technical and commercial expertise.”

“1.3M NEW JOBS… MORE JOBS IN THE FIRST 100 DAYS THAN ANY PRESIDENT ON RECORD.”

DOUBLE TAKE

The drive to hydrogen fuels takes off again after 30 years • In the 1990s, fuel-cell electric vehicles were all the rage. Then it went silent. Now, as climate change sits at the top of investors’ agenda, this technology is accelerating again.

Will Glencore miss its targets?

A fund with a trio of benefits • This Namibian fund gives investors a capped exposure to SA’s largest stocks.

Guarantees remove risk

Sasol turns the tide

Is that a bearish pattern forming?

Scan the market for the pandemic survivors • Some companies barely survived the pandemic whilst others have bounced back stronger. Take note of this when you are looking for a new investment.

It’s time to rethink fixed income with ETFs • Exchange-traded products focusing on fixed-income assets can overcome the largest challenges facing today’s bond markets.

Online travel agencies flying high • Airbnb, Booking Holdings and Expedia have rerated sharply after the first quarter of 2020. They may have run too hard.

Why the rand is strengthening • Will the rand reach its highs again? A number of economic and market factors determine the direction of the currency’s strength.

Simon’s stock tips • Founder and director of investment website JustOneLap.com, Simon Brown, is finweek’s resident expert on the stock markets. In this column he provides insight into recent market developments.

Emerging markets look attractive • Relative price strength indicates possible turnaround in investor psychology.

Be cost-savvy when you invest • How much do you pay in fees when buying or selling?

TO GROW OR TO VALUE? • The impact of rising inflation is all the talk in the markets. finweek asked experts how this will play out among growth and value stocks.

BACK TO SCHOOL • South Africa’s listed education companies are riding out the pandemic. Are they worth investing in?

WHERE WILL THE MONEY FOR NEW PROJECTS COME FROM? • Investments in infrastructure decreased quite drastically over the past few years and it’s not difficult to guess why the state is spending so little. The private sector is a solution, but there are a number of obstacles that first have to be overcome.

Infrastructure and retirement monies

DOES HIGHER FOOD INFLATION STIMULATE INVESTMENT? • Rising food prices and other relevant factors raise the question about how this could influence the financial performance of local food processors and their potential attraction for investors.

Up for the challenge • Attacq’s new CEO, Jackie van Niekerk, brings an entrepreneurial spirit, ability to identify opportunities, and creative deal-making to the role.

About Jackie

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