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Welcome aboard – Rowan Allpass.
August 16, 2010
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Sandy D’Arcy’s “ship” sailed for the UK on the 6th June this year where she and her husband Ian have decided to settle. While we knew it would be no easy task finding a replacement for Sandy – we were determined to select a top quality person who shared in our values and ethics. We ar
Continue Reading →2010 and beyond . . .
May 16, 2010
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The much anticipated 2010 Soccer World Cup is days away, following several years of careful planning and hard work behind the scenes. Hosting an event of this magnitude is a “first” for Africa – and it is by no means an easy task to follow on from Germany, who hosted the event in 2006
Continue Reading →An amazing comeback for equities …
February 16, 2010
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While the last quarter of the tax year [December to February this year] has been fairly flat for most of the international equity markets [the European market has been negative] – the year 1 March 2009 to 28 February 2010 has produced very pleasing results for this asset class.
Continue Reading →Global Markets – 4th quarter 2009 – a year divided
November 09, 2009
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Many of us, when asked, would probably immediately respond that 2009 is a year that we would rather forget. The year started with extreme pessimism, following the most severe market correction since the 1930’s. However, since March, “green shoots” have started to emerge and, if we loo
Continue Reading →Looking back…
August 09, 2009
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Six months have passed since I wrote the Finlaw News article about “Plunging down South to the Big Freezer” [end Feb 2009]. The message then was …“bailing out of your investments, turning back on your long-term investment strategies will only deprive you of the benefits of staying the
Continue Reading →Global Markets – 2nd quarter 2009 “Bull markets are born on pessimism..”
May 09, 2009
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The late Sir John Templeton once said – “bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on scepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria”. According to Wikipedia, pessimism is “… a painful state of mind which negatively colors the perception of life, especially with regard to fut
Continue Reading →Plunging down south to the Big Freezer
February 09, 2009
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“This is your Captain speaking … we have a 10 metre [35ft] swell on the Starboard beam driven by a 50 knot South-westerly wind. Conditions are going to be rough – so please take all precautions to secure yourself and your personal items in your cabin”. That was the news th
Continue Reading →Global Markets – 4th quarter 2008 : The credit crisis – how it all began
November 09, 2008
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When the rumblings of the sub prime credit crisis first emerged in August last year, nobody envisaged the extent to which this would unfold and later become the catalyst for a crisis within financial markets and banking systems around the world. A recent article by Kevin Lings [Econom
Continue Reading →Global Markets – 3rd quarter 2008 : The widening income disparity in South Africa is a cause for concern
August 09, 2008
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The Business Day recently published an article, based on research that had been done by the Bureau for Market Research at Unisa, which reported that “income disparities in SA have widened in the past two years, boosted by more rapid growth in high-income earners…” According to the res
Continue Reading →Global Markets – 2nd quarter 2008 : Food prices in crisis
May 09, 2008
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Did you read the article titled “World Food Riots Spread” that was published in the Business Times in April? We found it enlightening and rather disturbing. The article confirms that global leaders have been raising serious concerns about the food crisis for some time… “while there is
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