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Investing when emotions are running high

The South African political environment took a turn last week. The changes have had a significant impact on financial markets to date. South Africa relies on foreign capital flows to fund its deficits, and with increasingly likely downgrades of its sovereign debt looming (including last night’s S&P move to junk), further volatility can be expected and further sharp declines in the rand are possible. The importance of the loss of independence of an institution like the […]

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Investing when emotions are running high

The South African political environment took a turn last week. The changes have had a significant impact on financial markets to date. South Africa relies on foreign capital flows to fund its deficits, and with increasingly likely downgrades of its sovereign debt looming (including last night’s S&P move to junk), further volatility can be expected and further sharp declines in the rand are possible. The importance of the loss of independence of an institution like the […]

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An Investment Lesson … from Pizza

South African investors could almost be forgiven for shaking their heads at the close of business on Monday 27 March 2017. They just can’t win at the moment. Political risk has once again reared its head with speculation around our finance minister and markets were not quite sure how to react, especially as US markets were already pricing in a drop as they tried to price in the political fallout of a failed US healthcare bill. […]

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