Our quarterly insights on the investment industry
On 9 December 2016 National Treasury issued the second draft of their retirement funds default regulations. Treasury has made numerous amendments to the first draft, which we wrote about in our article titled “Draft Default Regulations: what are we in for?”1 While many interesting issues were raised in the second draft, this article will focus on a few.
2016 posed many challenges for the global financial markets. In the US, however, a rocky start to the year, Brexit, a surprise Trump upset, nor the Fed raising interest rates could prevent equity indices from hitting all-time highs before year-end.
Wealth is normally associated with the amount of financial capital you have accumulated, whether it is property, investments and/or other assets. There is however another important form of wealth that is often overlooked, namely your human capital
The threat of a ratings downgrade hung over SA markets throughout 2016. Despite concerted efforts to unseat Pravin Gordhan as Minister of finance, he managed to survive, along with our investment grade rating.
Tax-free investments (TFI) have certainly taken off as the ‘no-brainer’ investment of choice in South Africa in the past two years, with over 260 000 new TFI accounts being opened in the first tax year alone.
For many investors, investment returns for 2016 were disappointing, irrespective of the strategies they followed.
This year the focus has shifted away from South Africa (and Africa) to global issues and particularly the implications of Brexit and of a Trump presidential victory.
Nedgroup Investments funds achieved top honours again at the annual Morningstar Awards presentation held in Cape Town on Wednesday.
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