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Hedging against complexity

Fairtree's Kamini Naidoo and Amplify Investment Partners' Wade Witbooi discuss how hedge funds, particularly multi-strategy approaches, have evolved beyond their complex…

A new gateway to global alternatives

Sanlam Private Wealth has launched the SPW Global Alternatives Fund, providing qualifying private investors with access to institutional-grade global alternative assets including…

Platforms to learn online trading 

Continuous education, practice and adaptation to market dynamics are important for online traders

Palestinian employees at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) wearing protective masks and gloves, prepare food aid rations to be henceforth delivered to refugee family homes rather than distributed at a UN a center, in Gaza City, on March 31, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

New strategies are required to control food-price inflation

Food-price inflation has a direct effect on people’s lives — and it hits the poor the hardest

Limitations: A cargo ship loaded with containers leaves a port in Haikou in China’s southern Hainan province. The Covid-19 pandemic has had far-reaching financial and economic consequences, including disruptions to global value chains. (AFP/China OUT)

China and Omicron are the wild cards for the global economy and financial markets

Lockdown restrictions will continue to disrupt global value chains and support rising inflation that will require aggressive rate hikes

Balancing act: South African Reserve Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago has aimed to keep inflation anchored to 4.5%. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

As Reserve Bank eyes inflation, jobs suffer

The central bank has been criticised for hiking interest rates to the detriment of employment

Green but not good: Water hyacinth on Lake Victoria at Kichinjio Beach in Kisumu, Kenya, hamper fishermen’s efforts to make a living. In Lake Victoria, fisheries have declined from the depletion of tilapia caused by the spread of water hyacinth, the world’s most widespread terrestrial invasive alien species. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP)

The commons, not the market

Greening the financial system is essential, but the environment can’t be shoehorned into the logic of finance