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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
Continue Reading →Anguish in August…
August 16, 2011
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Rowan’s quarterly round up for end May 2011 put the finger on the button when it comes to volatility in the global markets. His PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain) contagion really came home to roost in August with even US Treasury Bonds taking an early rating knock from Standard
Continue Reading →“Greece” is the word…
May 16, 2011
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WOW!! What a quarter this has been!! It seems that all the gains in global and local markets made in the last quarter ending February 2011 have been eroded by the tragic earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan and the potential threat of nuclear meltdown. Global markets dipped shar
Continue Reading →A great final quarter for the Tax year ended Feb 2011…
February 16, 2011
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28 February 2011 concluded with a good bull run of almost 5 months in both local and international share markets. Even the troubles brewing in North Africa towards the end of that month had a minimal impact on investor optimisim. The recovery since 6 March 2009 has been especially gra
Continue Reading →Season Greetings – 2010
December 16, 2010
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Welcome aboard – Stacey Lancaster. We are pleased to welcome Stacey, the daughter of Sue who worked for Finlaw several years ago, to the team. Stacey has just completed her B.Com Law degree which she achieved part-time with several subject distinctions along the way. Stacey teams up w
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