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Daily English South Africa Business · Investing
4,345 Episodes
1160 – 1180

View from the market

Makwe Masilela, CIO of Makwe Fund Managers & Nick Kunze, portfolio manager at Sanlam Private Wealth
17 Aug 2020 12PM 12 min

View from C-Suite

In this weekly feature Michael Avery gets up close and personal with South Africa’s business and political economy leaders, to uncover what makes them tick, keeps them up at night and keeps them going through the Covid storm. This week Avery caught up with Tashmia Ismail-Saville is the CEO of…
14 Aug 2020 12PM 27 min

Absa completes separation process from Barclays

Absa is celebrating substantial completion of its separation programme from Barclays PLC, three years after the start. The separation, one of the largest and most complex corporate programmes of its kind, followed Barclays PLC’s 2016 decision to reduce its shareholding in the African group to a minority position. Barclays became…
13 Aug 2020 1PM 14 min

The case for economic optimism

Despite Lockdown, 85% of salaries remained unchanged during the last quarter in Europe and the US, meaning saved money will be spent, and stock inventories will be replenished in the third quarter. The first wave of the global COVID-19 pandemic is sweeping South Africa and, in its wake, comes economic…
13 Aug 2020 1PM 9 min

Exxaro results

Despite serious headwinds, both on the Covid-19 and coal fronts, Exxaro Resources turned in a stellar first half performance pushing up export sales by 39% and backing that up with higher off-take from Eskom. The end result was that thermal coal sales rose 10.7% to 22.8 million tons, which flowed…
13 Aug 2020 1PM 11 min

View from the market

Caroline Cremen, portfolio manager at Adviceworx & Charl Bester, Wealth & Portfolio manager at Kruger International
13 Aug 2020 1PM 17 min

Roundtable discussion: Brands beyond Covid-19

A lot of people – even those in branding – struggle with answering the question: So what’s a brand, anyway? The term “brand” first emerged more than half a century ago as a way for cattle ranchers to identify their animals. In the late 1880s, packaged goods like Coca-Cola started…
12 Aug 2020 1PM 55 min

Wealth Feature A dark five years of value destruction

The JSE has been and continues to be very challenging for money managers and shareholders. Over the past five years to July 21, nine companies listed on the JSE have lost nearly a trillion rand (R974.9bn) in combined market value, according to Corion Capital. This represents 39% of the total…
12 Aug 2020 12PM 6 min
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