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The octopus on fees versus commissions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2010
... refer to Paul the Octopus, who rose to worldwide fame when he upstaged the just completed soccer World Cup hosted in South Africa. Rainmaker this morning used the app to complete groundbreaking research into the vexed issue of commissions versus fees ...

African dev't needs private equity: Mobius

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2010
... many countries are not fully developed so direct foreign investment is needed as a starter," said Mobius. He said South Africa is the largest and most liquid market in sub-Saharan Africa and Nigeria is quickly emerging as an investment destination. Kenya ...

GESB hires two investment strategists

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
... Australasia. Schultz has responsibility for asset allocation and currency. He joins GESB from Coronation Fund Managers in South Africa, where he spent the past 10 years as a portfolio manager and joint head of the Absolute Return Unit. Prior to his appointment ...

Macquarie Life releases flexible insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
... and therefore lowers the cost to clients. The structure of the policy is based on a similar insurance product from South Africa. Sally Phillips, head of underwriting and claims for Macquarie Life, said the product was successful in South Africa and is ...

New mining tax is miners' own idea

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
... Commonwealth Treasury, 11 countries have resource royalty regimes but five - Norway, Denmark, the US, Canada and South Africa - have super profit components albeit defined differently with varying threshold and taxation rates. The broader lesson, however ...

Sovereign fund takes shine to platinum

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2010
... launched earlier this month. The company explores, develops and operates platinum group metals (PGM) deposits in South Africa. It's current focus is the Pilansberg Platinum Mine, which is in production, according to a company statement. Temasek Holdings ...

African bourse on the rise

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
... year. Another index, the NSE 20 Share was also the best performing index last year, beating similar indices in Egypt, South Africa, Ghana and Morocco. On a stock-by-stock performance, NSE-listed stocks posted triple digits gain last year, among them ...

End game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
... America publicly peddles to get the rest of the world onside. But somehow I don't expect Australia and Canada and South Africa joining in because of the positive impact on their economies of rising commodity prices thanks to China. Neither will most ...

AMP appoints key insurance personnel

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
... Wealth Protection team. Bertasso joins Personal Wealth Protection from CommInsure. Before this, Bertasso resided in South Africa and worked for Swiss Re in number of key roles, including chief underwriter. AMP's director of wealth protection products ...

Sanlam enters Australian market

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
One of South Africa's largest listed financial services groups, Sanlam, has entered a joint venture in Australia to form Calibre Investments, a Sydney-headquartered wealth management business. Sanlam's private client arm has entered the JV. Calibre ...