Estate Planning Essentials – Estate planning for farmers

Estate planning is specifically important where a family business is involved, especially when the family business is a farm. Certain practical issues are often not taken into consideration when dealing with the complexities of the estate of a farmer as a business owner. The following three-part series of Estate Planning Essentials will look at these

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Money Marketing Newsletter – Time facts to never forget – sometimes we are just not that unique

In today’s newsletter we look at the importance of time. Today the focus has been the release of Nelson Mandela 20 years ago. It has been a privilege to share such an exciting time in South Africa’s history. Each generation has their moment of text book copy that they share in – sometimes it is

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Money Marketing Newsletter – Synchronised recession, desynchronised recovery; SA listed property

In today’s newsletter we take a look at the ever present topic of the global recovery and what we could expect in 2010. The recession hit everyone hard – at mostly the same time. But the recovery from that recession is significantly different across the globe. Key to how well you recover from this recession

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In today’s newsletter we feature an article from Adrian Saville. How have we dealt with the crisis – what is the real debt situation and where are the places for investors in the future are just some of the issues Saville addresses.   A Changed Global Fabric: Investing in the Post-Crisis Era   Dr Adrian Saville, CIO

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ZAR – A Volatile Currency

Glacier Research highlights to investors that the extreme volatility in the Rand “can translate into sizeable profits or losses over the short term and in turn increase the risk in a portfolio.  Your asset manager should essentially be able to successfully tap into offshore investing opportunities for better diversification in your portfolio, but at the

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Efficient Research – Events To Watch: 26 – 30 October 2009

The effect of the global economic slowdown has been felt by fiscal finances this year. An expansionary fiscal policy framework was adopted to counter the recession in South Africa. Over the past year, there have been various infrastructure development projects with an eye on the 2010 Soccer World cup and beyond. There were also significant

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The Weekly Focus

Market Comment The JSE All Share Index gained another 2.4% last week and is trading at a new 2009 high today (Monday 19th October). The market is also back at early September 2008 levels, as well as February 2007 levels. Our market continues to follow the offshore markets, with both the MSCI Emerging Markets Index

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