News – August 2015

WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM: Global Competitive Report 2014/15: Aided and abetted by a jaundiced press obsessed with negativity, it comes as no surprise that many South Africans are decidedly uncomfortable about the country’s future. While we have no wish to paint over the very real social,
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News – May 2015

House News:  On 2 May 2015, Stacey Lancaster said ‘yes’ and she is now engaged to Chad Barron. Along with Mrs Candice van Dongen (nee’ Read), we are delighted to be adding another “Mrs” to our staff, in the not-so-distant future. We have had a busy start to the year and fi
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Volatile markets, uncertain times – end August 2013

House News: We bid a fond farewell to Rowan Allpass who has been with us for three years.  We wish him all the best for the future and express our sincere thanks for the contribution he has made to Finlaw and the well-being of our clients while he journeyed with us.  I have personally
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Remarkable recovery to end Feb 2013

House News We are pleased to report that: Candice Read took a trip to the Far East [Thailand] in February to get first-hand knowledge of developments in these important markets so we could better understand the dynamics of the shifts in the Global economy to the Asia’s. Happily, she w
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Fiscal Cliffs in the USA… Fisti-Cuffs in the RSA…???

Fiscal Cliffs We certainly do have an interesting December 2012 ahead of us. The World is waiting with baited breath to know whether the USA will be able to secure a bi-partisan agreement by the end of the month for their budgetary and tax issues for 2013 and beyond. The outcome is by
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Pre-Party Palpitations…

The worker strikes, which often frequent this time of year, have produced horrific consequences not normally associated with labour disputes, culminating in the deaths of more than 45 of our citizens. To make matters worse the incidents have been exploited by various factions in the r
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End of Tax Year Report – 29 Feb 2012…

The points I made about the markets in the first part of last year’s February review can be made once again in this review. The local share market, in particular, has had a strong bull run since August 2011 through to end February as you will see in the red line of the graph below [co
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