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Sovereign fund takes shine to platinum

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2010
... Sovereign fund Temasek and European-based pension fund APG are looking to invest more than $50 million each in a South African platinum exploration and development firm. Platmin announced that both parties have expressed an intention to buy over $50 ...

African bourse on the rise

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
The Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE) is steadily making changes to its structure to keep pace with its overseas counterparts, and the results are promising. Late last month, NSE chief executive Peter Mwangi, spoke at an industry forum about the progress ...

Sanlam enters Australian market

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
... has entered the JV. Calibre Investments is a partnership between Sanlam and a team led by Australia-based former South African investment professional, Werner Stals and two Australian investment advisors, Albert Landman and Maurice Feilich. DaniA

AXA overseas recruitment drive slows

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
... planning group at career shows across the two countries since 2007. AXA received more than 280 applications from South African and the UK financial planners up until April last year and, from that number, had hired 13 planners to move to Australia. Paul ...

Asia unseats South Africa in gold race

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
... the gold production tables, according to the firm's latest Gold Survey Update. Despite South Africa's lower output, the African region overall saw growth by 4 per cent. Four of the world's top ten global output increases stemmed from the region, led ...

Africa's PIC appoints Charles River

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2009
... manages assets valued at R739.7 billion as at March 31, 2009, making it one of the largest investment managers on the African continent. The firm's clients include pension, provident, social security or guardian funds. Charles River IMS features an N-Tier ...

IOSCO to impose new rule on FoHFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2009
... future, said a hedge fund expert. Following a consultation process that involved a number of associations including South African-based Association of Savings & Investment SA and UK-based Thames River Capital L.L.P the report was amended to deal with ...

Hermaphrodite economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2009
... -if not most - expect. The current investment environment contains both plusses and minuses. Much like news that South African 800-metre world champion Caster Semenya was found to have both male and female sexual organs. She has no ovaries, instead she ...

African women suffer most: World Bank

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
The global economic crisis has a serious impact not just on the finances of African women but on their mortality rates too, said Obiageli Ezekwesili, World Bank vice president for the Africa Region. The global economic crisis will drastically reduce ...

Microsoft battles Google Docs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
... year when it launches a free web-based version of its boxed software, the ubiquitous Microsoft Office. Asian, Indian and African financial services firms have managed to stay on top of their admin-based data, despite not being able to afford Microsoft ...