Jacques Plaut News Today

This week MoneywebNOW looked at what we should really be focusing on when investing, copper demand in the future and the likelihood of rate cuts later in the year.

‘Its an investors job to think more deeply and try to evaluate companies – regardless of the newspaper headlines’ – Jacques Plaut, Allan Gray.

A look at whether Life Healthcare should sell its imaging business, contrarian investment questions to ask to boost one’s portfolio and PPS on making ESG accessible.

This week MoneywebNOW looked at renting out property vs selling in a buyers market, recent property trends and Octodecs annual results, offshore currency tips, corporate hedging policies and a new earned wage access product.

‘I would be looking closest at the Norwegian krone, because theyve benefited from the higher energy prices’: Jacques Plaut – Allan Gray.

A look ahead to the Fed’s interest rate decision and Afrimat results unpacked.

This week MoneywebNOW looked at reduced business travel impacts, why using both active and passive investment makes sense, the new era of investing, a different way to pay off a home loan, and more.

It has been a wild, wild fortnight for cryptocurrency investors, even by crypto’s standards of volatility. However, while a recent report released by Goldman Sachs suggests that institutional investors are increasingly seeing cryptocurrencies as an asset class, South African asset managers re...

MONEYWEB app instead? Large multi-asset funds lose ground. By Patrick Cairns 21 Jan 2021  00:01  The Allan Gray Balanced Fund saw net withdrawals of R13.3bn but is still comfortably the largest unit trust in the country. Image: Supplied Local investors appear to be losing some of their affinity for the country’s largest multi-asset unit trusts. According to Morningstar data, eight of the 10 local funds with the highest net outflows last year are among South Africa’s 25 larges...