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/ 10 February 2011
The unbanked will have easy access to benefit payout funds.
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/ 10 December 2010
Cabinet has announced the appointment of Elias Masilela, a senior Sanlam executive as the chief executive of the Public Investment Corporation.
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/ 25 November 2010
Funeral policies you can buy at Money Market counters? Sanlam makes funeral cover easy and convenient.
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/ 25 November 2010
Modern portfolio theory shows that diversification is fundamental to constructing a portfolio.
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/ 13 October 2010
To celebrate 10 years of success the Takalani Sesame muppets will be conducting a tour of the country.
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/ 13 October 2010
ArcelorMittal says its R9-million BEE deal with Imperial Crown Traiding could be revisited.
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/ 9 September 2010
South African insurer Sanlam reported flat first-half earnings on Thursday.
Sixty percent of pensioners do not have enough to live on and that figure is getting worse. Yet we have no idea how underfunded we are.
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/ 26 February 2010
The Sanlam Liquid account is a very attractive account as it provides high interest rates while allowing for online transactions.
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/ 3 September 2009
Sanlam reported a rise in first-half profit on Thursday thanks to relatively stable equity markets in the period.
Private equity investors are continuing to invest in SA despite a global credit crunch, with the manufacturing and construction sectors favoured.
South African financial services firm Sanlam expects 2009 to be challenging after it posted a 59% drop in headline earnings per share on Thursday.
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/ 23 October 2008
Insurance: People between the ages of 30 and 50 are at the highest risk of dread diseases such as cancer and heart attacks.
Remuneration report shows chief executives are rolling in it.
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/ 4 September 2008
Sanlam reported a 24% drop in first-half diluted headline EPS on Thursday, and said volatile debt and equity markets could continue to crimp growth.
South African stocks remained modestly weaker at noon on Thursday, with banks weighing heavily on a deteriorating inflation outlook after worse-than-expected producer price inflation data and the South African Reserve Bank governor’s comments that the bank was considering a 200-basis-point interest-rate hike.
Foreign investors buying Kenya’s Safaricom stock will pay a 0,5 shilling premium per share over the five Kenya shillings that domestic investors will be paying, the government announced on Wednesday. The offering generated over ,25-billion in bids from established institutional investors, Kenya’s privatisation commission said.
South African stocks hung on to earlier gains at noon on Monday, supported by firmer overseas markets, but the stronger rand and faltering gold prices restricted gains, traders said. By midday on Monday, the JSE’s broader all-share index was 0,77% in the black. Resources were up 1,21%, the platinum-mining index advanced 0,34% but the gold-mining index fell 0,70%.
Three South African names appear on this year’s Forbes World Billionaires list, released late on Wednesday. The names include Nicky Oppenheimer, Anton Rupert and mining magnate Patrice Motsepe — this country’s first black billionaire. Nicholas Oppenheimer is placed 173rd on the list, while Rupert is in 284th place and Motsepe is at number 503.
South African financial-services firm Sanlam said on Thursday its full-year normalised headline earnings fell 22% due to a slowdown in equity markets in 2007 and compared with high returns in 2006. It also warned of a tough year ahead as interest rates, higher inflation, a power-supply crunch at home and volatility in international financial markets take their toll.
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/ 13 February 2008
South African stocks were slightly lower at midday on Wednesday as heavily weighted miners continue to falter on falling metal prices, while other investors refrained from making any large moves ahead of Wall Street opening. At midday, the broader all-share index had was off 0,18% at 28 533,810.
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/ 22 January 2008
Weddings in the dark, disgusted tourists and business owners leaving the country are some of the effects Eskom’s power failures are having, according to postings on a website dedicated to the problem. In the first 48 hours of operation, www.eskomstories.co.za has received about 2Â 000 letters.
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/ 22 January 2008
An electricity shortage that has led to frequent power disruptions in South Africa could chase away investors, denting growth and portfolio inflows and weakening the rand. Economists estimate the cost to the economy has run into hundreds of millions of rands, adding to the woes brought on by the falls in financial markets.