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...
13 July 2018
June was largely a decent month for ETFs. The rand, which weakened 7.8% against the dollar and 6.8% against the euro, fuelled a strong performance fro...
21 June 2018
ETFs struggled during May with an equally weighted portfolio of the 60 ETFs that reported returns losing 2.32%. Local-asset ETFs performed poorly whil...
17 May 2018
April was a good month for ETF investors, particularly those invested in international funds. Local equities recouped most of the losses incurred in M...