[TOP STORY] Is the South African consumer in a perilous position?

STANLIB’s Rademeyer Vermaak believes an investor’s key insight in trying times should be ‘to focus not so much on what is changing, but on what stays the same'.

Chantal Marx from FNB Wealth & Investments unpacks Famous Brands’s results, with decent growth, refinanced debt and a share buyback in focus. Rademeyer Vermaak from STANLIB Asset Management explains how its systematic process is navigating volatile markets. Plus, Tracey-Lee Zürcher-Campbell from Payflex on the BNPL myths South Africa has disproven.

CEO Ben Pierre Malherbe discusses the company’s strategic shift: Selling non-core assets, developing bulk infrastructure, and expanding core projects through 2027.

Allysa Viljoen of Merchant West Investments discusses the WeBuyCars results, which highlighted deflation in used-car prices in the half-year to the end of March. Calgro M3 CEO Ben Pierre Malherbe on the group's latest annual results, key developments like Bankenveld City, and selling out of non-core assets. Plus, Astral Foods…

AG Capital’s Casey Sprake looks ahead to SA’s looming agricultural challenges: El Niño, rising input costs and future food inflation.