Quarterly Review – End November 2024

As the year hurtles towards a close, we reflect on a particularly eventful year at home and around the World. Our May elections produced a business-friendly GNU far removed from the populist, investor-unfriendly government we might have ended up with. In celebration, a photographic sa
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Quarterly Review – End August 2024

In this 3rd edition of our “Team Talks”, we are excited to share some wonderful news with our clients. The Finlaw family is expanding! Stacey is expecting a baby in March 2025, and big sister, Olivia is absolutely thrilled! 2024 has been a year filled with many surprises both on the l
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Quarterly Review – End May 2024

End of May 2024 Since the recent conclusion of the elections, we’ve decided to pause our ‘Team Chats’ to delve into some of the outcomes from the elections held on the 29th of May 2024. Our chats will resume in the next newsletter - August 2024. Five years ago, I wrote the following
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Quarterly Review – End February 2024

Our Finlaw family … Twenty years have passed by since we moved into our offices in Redlands Estate – so it was time for a décor revamp. We have shed the “Ocean Blue” feature-wall in our Reception and replaced it with something far more “Earthy” – good old South African bushveld grass
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Quarterly Review – End November 2023

Positive signs are emerging … As we navigate these extraordinary times, gratitude is owed to the Bokke for adding some positivity to our year. 2023 has been a challenging year, especially for South Africans. There are certain areas that are showing signs of reform that extend beyond
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Quarterly Review – End August 2023

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Perspective … It is all too easy to lose our sense of perspective in the never-ending barrage of news we encounter daily from “legacy” media (newspapers) and the more pervasive digital media (television and our smart phones).
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Quarterly Review – End May 2023

Next year we will see elections taking place in the US, Europe, UK and in SA. The local elections have been described as the most crucial national elections since 1994! In the US, we may see two octogenarians [Biden and Trump] fighting it out for a chance at a second term as president
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Quarterly Review – End February 2023

House News: Flash backs – Ten years ago – in our newsletter of Feb 2013 we mentioned that Stacey Barron [then Lancaster] had just been relieved of her Receptionist duties to focus on gaining practical experience in Financial Planning and Advisory services. She had completed her
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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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