30 July 2019
As a rule of thumb, we like ETFs that follow a watertight investment philosophy. They should also be tax smart, which means they should qualify to be ...
3 June 2019
In April the all-share index rose 3.66%, propelled by local retailers (up 10.01%) and banks (up 6.82%) on the back of an anticipated ANC election vict...
22 April 2019
The JSE all share index edged up 0.8% in March driven by the rand hedges and large caps (+1.2%). Sentiment towards SA stocks remains subdued as small ...
2 April 2019
Bonds and cash were star performers in 2018. This is because of their low-risk attributes: investors tend to gravitate to lower-risk asset classes in ...
11 February 2019
We’ve seen an upbeat start to the year for global markets which warmed to the US Federal Reserve’s sentiments of a more accommodative monetary stance....
29 January 2019
2018 was marred by relatively high volatility and risk aversion in financial markets. Most equity markets – local and foreign – ended in the red as a ...
21 November 2018
The stock market pullback that started towards the end of September continued during October. An equally weighted portfolio of non-commodity JSE-liste...
24 October 2018
In September JSE-listed ETFs gave up gains made in the prior month. An equally weighted portfolio of non-commodity JSE-listed ETFs lost 2.87%, with mo...
13 August 2018
ETFs remained largely flat in July with an equally weighted portfolio of the 64 ETFs that we cover marginally losing 0.43%. However, the one-year perf...