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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.

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Insuring like it’s the future • The shift to digital has fast-tracked both the demand for and supply of new kinds of insurance services.

Finweek - English

“A NECESSARY STEP TO SAFEGUARD MARKET INTEGRITY AND THE INTEREST OF ISSUERS.”

“[Woolworths’ focus] absolutely remains playing with the cards we’ve got.”

“THE TRUTH IS, THIS DID UNFOLD MORE QUICKLY THAN WE HAD ANTICIPATED.”

DOUBLE TAKE

‘Pulling all stops’ on climate change • The UN’s recent report on the impact of human beings on planetwide temperatures is a call to action for miners.

Value over volume? • Chris Griffith, the CEO of Gold Fields, talks about the firm’s production and future.

A review of SA’s venture capital and private equity classes • Should investors take a chance on these classes?

A focus on specialist skillsets • The PortfolioMetrix BCI SA Equity Fund is a domestic general equity fund that aims to secure high long-term capital growth.

Solid results

Correction on the cards?

Looking to recoup its losses

How to use net asset value when considering stocks • A company’s NAV might be a trap. There’s more to this valuation metric.

Relativity in the investment world • Which asset classes boast the best value relative to others?

Pandemics, politics, conspiracy theories – what’s next? • Could mRNA technology open the door for the treatment of other diseases?

Managing real-world market fears • It can be hard to focus on your investment fundamentals when a stock or sector runs hard. This fear is manageable.

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.

PMI data: An early warning • Do purchasing managers’ indices flash a red light for a global growth deceleration?

LOOKING FOR RETURNS AS OFFSHORE ASSETS BECOME EXPENSIVE • YOUR QUARTERLY REVIEW OF SA FUNDS SEPTEMBER 2021

Local or offshore?

A balanced, but not traditional, solution • The Coronation Global Managed Fund offers ample opportunities in the current environment.

Is the ‘shrinking’ JSE a sign of a sinking ship? • Allan Gray’s Nadia van der Merwe and Stephan Bernard look at the factors that influence delistings.

Investing offshore – how much? • There are many factors to consider when you are deciding between investing locally or offshore.

Rewind to look ahead • Clyde Rossouw has witnessed several market crises such as the dotcom bubble, the Great Financial Crisis and more recently, the Covid-19 market crash. He shares some of the key investment lessons he has learnt.

Pointers on a sustainable portfolio • Navigating the current investment environment is quite challenging.

Is it all doom and gloom? • Economist Dawie Roodt from the Efficient Group gives his forecasts for the local and global economies.

Investing in outstanding global funds • Making the case for some of SA’s offshore funds.

THERE’S (ALWAYS) MONEY IN FOOD • Food prices are accelerating in South Africa and across the planet. finweek looks at SA’s listed food producer sector to gauge how...