by gzaeprne-ca | Jun 27, 2022 | Live site, Uncategorized
Risk assets have had a difficult year to date as financial conditions have begun to tighten. The US Federal Reserve (the Fed) has started reducing its $8.9 trillion balance sheet and has increased rates by 1.5% since March 2022. The narrative has shifted to a focus on...
by gzaeprne-ca | Jun 27, 2022 | Live site, Uncategorized
Millions of South Africans rely on the money saved in their employers’ retirement fund to earn an income in retirement. For many people, this is their only formal savings for retirement. Unfortunately, too often, this money is still not enough to sustain them in...
by gzaeprne-ca | Jun 27, 2022 | Live site, Uncategorized
Rising costs of living and high levels of unemployment in an unpredictable economic landscape have turned traditional financial aspirations on their head as people desperately scramble to overcome short-term challenges at the cost of long-term investments. Head of...
by gzaeprne-ca | Jun 27, 2022 | Live site, Uncategorized
The squeeze on living standards We haven’t seen a squeeze on living standards like this for quite some time. Real incomes are falling in a way they haven’t done since the second half of the 1970s when inflation was very high or the early eighties when we had a...
by gzaeprne-ca | Jun 27, 2022 | Live site, Uncategorized
Foreign assets play an important role in South African investors’ portfolios, both to enhance investment returns and to provide much- needed protection against the numerous risks inherent to emerging market economies, such as our own. At M&G Investments, foreign...
