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MONEYWEB app instead? If you were a share investor, which share would you rather own? 11 May 2021 14:20 According to this article published on Fin24, Clicks is going to buy Pick n Pay’s pharmacies. In the article the Pick n Pay chief operating officer, Adrian Naudé said that the future key objectives of Pick n Pay do not include the development of a pharmacy division. Clicks has the largest retail pharmacy network in South Africa and with this deal, Clicks will increase its footprint to 632 pharmacies and in contrast to Pick n Pay’s strategy Clicks claims that 50% of the country�...

MONEYWEB app instead? Can the social media company deliver the growth implied by its  share price? 29 April 2021 15:32 Image: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg Facebook is a company with an interesting pedigree. Computer whizkid Mark Zuckerberg created a social media platform that seems to be on everybody’s device. My 15-year-old son keeps asking me why I use Facebook, I respond to him that I use Facebook because “everybody is on Facebook!” His response to me is something along the lines of “No dad, just you boomers are on Facebook!”. As a business though, Facebook is a ...

Was Q1 only the start of herd mentality in the market? By Julian Koski, CIO at New Age Alpha In his 2004 bestseller The Wisdom of Crowds, James Surowiecki famously provides evidence that when acting independently and in their own self-interest, the actions of individual members of a crowd result in an efficient outcome. Following this logic, if investors act independently in their pursuit of excess returns, the market will be efficient. Of course, the title of Surowiecki’s book is a nod to the classic tome by Charles Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (emphasi...

MONEYWEB app instead? Can the streaming service deliver the growth implied by its stock price? 15 April 2021 06:42 Netflix over the past few years has become part of every avid TV viewer’s life. Many of us are subscribers and we find that the content is just so much better than our previous satellite TV content provider. In addition, anything on Netflix is available on demand when we want it, no more waiting for our favourite series’ next episode to be aired in accordance with a prescribed schedule. With this convenience arrived a new phenomenon known as “binge-watching” w...

New Age Alpha Launches First US Large-Cap Equity Avoider ETFs, AVDR and AVDG New Age Alpha Launches First US Large-Cap Equity Avoider ETFs, AVDR and AVDG New Age Alpha, an asset management company that provides the global investment community with ETFs, indexes, SMAs, data and tools, announces two Avoider ETFs, AVDR US LargeCap Leading ETF (Ticker: AVDR) and AVDR US LargeCap ESG ETF (Ticker: AVDG). The alpha-seeking ETFs aim to provide an innovative source of alpha and an uncorrelated source of return by avoiding the losers “ stocks we believe to be overpriced. Tracking the New Age Alpha...