This week, we give you a comprehensive economic overview with more information on oil prices, SA private sector credit growth, global inflation and euro-area consumer inflation.
This week, we give you a comprehensive economic overview with more information on SA’s mining output, manufacturing production, US retail sales and inflation, market currencies and other data.
This week, we give you a comprehensive economic overview with more information on SA’s mining output, manufacturing production, US retail sales and inflation, market currencies and other data.
Johannesburg, 7 August 2023: STANLIB Asset Management, a leading South African investor in sustainable infrastructure, has today announced the acquisition of a controlling equity interest in Solareff, through its STANLIB Infrastructure Fund II. Closing of the transaction remains subject to obtaining the relevant regulatory approvals.
Since 2016, STANLIB’s Enhanced Multi Style Equity Fund has combined human ingenuity and world-class data analytics to deliver consistent, market-beating returns at low cost. Citywire rates Rademeyer Vermaak, the Head of STANLIB Systematic Solutions, as one of the top equity portfolio managers in SA. We find out how he and his team approach investing.
South African mobsters seem to want to get their hands on a new category of valuables: cooking oil. Willowton Group, the maker of Sunfoil cooking oil, suffered several robberies in October 2022. Gunmen stormed a facility in Durban and three loaded trucks were stolen from a warehouse in Kempton Park.
We are just over six months into the year, but very soon Eskom’s load shedding in 2023 will exceed the 11.8 GWh that it failed to supply over the whole of 2022.
2022 was the worst year in memory for bond markets. In 2023, despite short-term macro headwinds at both a global and local level, the recent large local cash bonds sell-off is making valuations attractive over
the tactical horizon.
Welcome to the second year of the era of chaos, where interest rates are no longer negative and inflation is no longer a textbook concept. In this brave new world, there continues to be a growing appetite for investing in a more sustainable future. However,
sustainable investing has – for the first time – begun to come under extensive scrutiny from not only investors and activists, but also from regulators and policy makers.
Following a global wave of inflation and the steepest rate hiking cycle in memory, global bond yields are at levels not seen since before the Global Financial Crisis of 2007.
Income funds offer good risk-adjusted returns with lower volatility than other asset classes, especially in times of macroeconomic uncertainty. In a world of sticky inflation, rising interest rates and slowing growth, the STANLIB Fixed Income team has the experience and the tactical agility to protect and grow investors’ capital.
“The party will be in fixed income this year.” That’s how Sylvester Kobo, our Deputy Head of Fixed Income, sums up the opportunities that await investors in this asset class in 2023.
