March turned out to be an interesting spectacle with the Constitutional Court ruling that President Zuma and parliament violated the Constitution and that Zuma will personally have to pay back a certain amount of money for improvements at Nkandla.
07/04/2016 /
TC van der Walt
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The growing popularity of passively traded funds is no mystery if one considers that 80% of active asset managers have not outperformed their benchmarks over the last 5 years. A benchmark is an appropriate market index that a fund manager compares their performance to. For example, the JSE Top 40 is the commonly chosen index for South African Equity funds to benchmark their performance against.
18/09/2015 /
Graeme Tennant
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I cannot think of an issue that divides traders and investors more than the concept and practice of short selling.
24/06/2015 /
Emperor Asset Management
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To build on the concept of leverage in securities it is of vital importance to understand how short selling affects an investment’s leverage or exposure.
27/10/2014 /
Emperor Asset Management
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