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Smart investing to beat longevity risk

Article Staff Reporter - 16 Mar 2020

Investors come to a balanced fund because they want growth

Vocabulary needed to make sense of the new normal

Article Kevin Davie - 16 Aug 2019

Negative rates are seriously spooking markets. Money managers are used to getting a positive return on their investments

Investments focussed on enhancing members’ wellbeing

Article Alf James - 19 Oct 2018

The fund's investment goal is to enhance returns to members on a sustainable basis

Focussed on benefitting members

Article Alf James - 19 Oct 2018

Profits from the fund's activities are reinvested to benefit members

Rhodes Must Fall campaigners barking up the wrong tree

Article Alok Jha - 1 Sep 2015

If trustees of the UCT fund have "blood on their hands" because of investment in Lonmin then so must trustees of all pension funds similarly invested.

Rickards: Developing markets should step up controls

Article Lynley Donnelly - 29 Aug 2013

Investment Banker and author James Rickards says emerging markets should consider implementing capital controls.

Chasing returns is for losers

Article Maya Fisher French - 14 Sep 2012

Studies have shown that investors are paying a high price for switching between funds.

How to lower the costs of retirement

Article Maya Fisher French - 17 Aug 2012

Restructuring the way we save for retirement could halve our costs and a new model that changes preservation rules will dramatically reduce charges.

Paying for value

Article Maya Fisher French - 1 Mar 2010

It's time to start asking questions about whether the fees levied on investments are worth the returns, writes Maya Fisher-French.

No end in sight for Ovation investors

Article Staff Reporter - 19 Aug 2009

Curators fight over who should bear the loss and the matter might go to trial.

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