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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Quarterly Review – End November 2021

Just when we thought it was all over… “The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn’t matter what mood you’re in, or what kind of year you’ve had – it’s a fresh start” – Kelly Clarkson  “We have made it – the last month of this surreal year is finally here!” This is t
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Quarterly Review – End August 2021

To Hell … and Back … [mostly?] These past three months in South Africa have been traumatic with the worst civil riots in any week in South Africa’s recent history as the mid-point of the Quarter under review!  The death and destruction were epic.  The official death toll stands at 342
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Quarterly report ending May 2021

House news May got off to a very exciting start when we heard that phase 2 of the vaccination roll-out would begin. John and Marcel [pictured] have received their 1st Pfizer vaccine and we are delighted to report neither have grown an extra limb! We are happy to hear that teachers are
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Quarterly Report Ending Feb 2021

House news Redvers Lee has retired as a Non-Executive member of our Board [he is Chairman of Venns Attorneys with more than enough on his plate] and Nolan Wallace has been appointed as an Executive Director following his successful completion of a Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Pl
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Quarterly Report Ending Nov 2020

♫ Have a Holly Jolly Christmas…   It’s the best time of the year ♫!  We have made it – the last month of this surreal year is finally here! Although some of us cannot wait to see this year in the rear-view mirror, there are a few weeks left and hopefully Christmas will hold
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Quarterly Report Ending Aug 2020

Cybercrime – SPOTting the scammers… Sadly, in recent years, we have become aware of several clients who have been scammed and in the process lost meaningful amounts of money.  According to a report released earlier this year by Accenture consultancy – South Africa has the third most c
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Quarterly Report End May 2020

Exciting News … We are delighted to confirm that the SA Reserve Bank has just authorised Finlaw to purchase and sell foreign exchange for our clients. This means that we will be able to directly assist clients with investing their annual foreign discretionary allowance [up to R1-milli
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Quarterly Report End February 2020

Microscopic to Macroscopic … Covid-19         Just three months ago, the Nations of the World were pre-occupied with Global warming, climate change, pollution of the Oceans … while a microscopic organism exited its animal host, migrated to a human host and began quietly proliferating
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