Quarterly Review – End November 2022

It is hard to believe that 2022 is almost over! We have survived what can only be described as a challenging and difficult year for us all. I think it is important that we all appreciate the magnitude of the events that have occurred this year – the Ukraine-Russian war, interest
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Quarterly Report Ending August 2022

GDP, CPI and other useful acronyms … South Africa’s “GDP” ended lower in June 2022 [2nd quarter] than it was at the end of 2019 [4th quarter] before “COVID–9” [“bC” … not to be confused with “BC”] came along and really messed things up! GDP stands for Gross Domestic
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Quarterly Report Ending May 2022

Market Volatility Continues… May has proven to be another difficult and volatile month for markets both locally and abroad following what has been a challenging year so far – we have in fact not seen a worse start to a year since the great bear market of 1974! The ongoing Russian inva
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Quarterly Report Ending Feb 2022

“How many REDS could a Dubček check if a Dubček could check REDS?”  That’s a Newspaper headline from August 1969 when Russia, Poland, Bulgaria and Hungary [the Warsaw  Pact] invaded Czechoslovakia to put a stop to their leader, Alexander Dubček’s efforts at liberalising the  economy a
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