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Investec eyes EM debt, record inflows

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010

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 ...

AXA overseas recruitment drive slows

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
AXA Australia's financial planning recruitment drive in the UK and South Africa has slowed with the financial services firm adding only two planners from those countries in the past six months. The firm has promoted the opportunity to join its Australian ...

AUSCOAL hires data transition manager

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
... data cleansing and reporting services and data migration. The transition management firm was also appointed by NMG South Africa to audit the data held for two larger clients, which represent around 50,000 members. RBF Tasmania also hired ITM to audit ...

Asia unseats South Africa in gold race

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
Indonesia, Tanzania and China reported the fastest growing output for gold last year - usurping South Africa, once the world's largest gold producer, which saw its production levels drop 5 per cent, according to a precious metals expert. British research ...