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ABIL is no longer ABLE – Aug 2014
September 05, 2014
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House News: – Lancaster take-over bid? The changes that Stacey Lancaster alluded to in our last newsletter (May 2014) went further than she predicted – we now have not one, but two Lancaster’s on board! Despite the graphic, which may have brought back memories for some of our clients,
Continue Reading →The End of Autumn – May 2014
June 09, 2014
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“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein The quote above summarises the theme of this newsletter – change! As our seasons change, so do our markets, both locally and offshore. It is always important to differentiate bet
Continue Reading →End of another Tax Year – Feb 2014
March 01, 2014
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“For myself, I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use being anything else.” Sir Winston Churchill This quote is extracted from our Newsletter written exactly 10 years ago. Amazing how the wheel turns. Back then we had predicted that we were close to the bottom of the Reserve
Continue Reading →A consensus view of our markets – end November 2013
December 20, 2013
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House News: In the blink of an eye another year has gone by and once again the cliché: “I cannot believe how fast this year flew by”, is a point of conversation at many a client visit and year-end function. Does time fly because we get older, busier or more stressed? A quote which I t
Continue Reading →Currency woes at end May 2013
May 25, 2013
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House News: Over the past quarter the Finlaw team have been actively engaged in a total revamp of our website which can be found at http://www.finlaw.co.za [or simply Google “Finlaw Consulting”]. Here is a snap shot of portion of our new home page … If you visit the site you will
Continue Reading →Remarkable recovery to end Feb 2013
February 25, 2013
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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
Continue Reading →Fiscal Cliffs in the USA… Fisti-Cuffs in the RSA…???
November 16, 2012
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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
Continue Reading →Pre-Party Palpitations…
August 16, 2012
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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
Continue Reading →“Sell in May and go away”…???
May 16, 2012
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The Title phrase above, sometimes heard in investment circles, is derived from the historically weak equity returns experienced in the months from May to September on Wall Street. The chart alongside graphically shows how this trend has manipulated itself over the past 30 years in the
Continue Reading →End of Tax Year Report – 29 Feb 2012…
February 16, 2012
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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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