LIVE ON EXPRESSO: Economy Update
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Banks: Long-term value outweighs the risks
Despite the meaningful risks looming over South Africa’s banking sector, the current combination of attractive dividend yields and relatively cheap valuations presents attractive prospective medium-term returns for investors in local bank shares, despite fairly muted earnings growth expectations in the low- to mid-single digits, according to Craig Butters, equity portfolio manager and banking sector analyst at Prudential Investment Managers. Banking stocks fell sharply in December 2015 on the back of the large jump in bond yields in reaction to the surprise firing of Finance Minister Nene, to levels well below their historic valuations. They have remained under pressure due to the increased risk of a downgrade of South Africa’s sovereign foreign currency credit rating to non-investm
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CNBC AFRICA: Preventing the retail credit nightmare
A South African retailer has been in the spotlight this year after charging a 60 year old man close to R18, 000 for a R6, 000 washing machine. The 36 month credit-based purchase agreement has been slammed by some debt experts as being reckless on the part of the retailer, but where does one draw the line between protecting both the interests of the consumer & the retailer? Joining CNBC Africa to talk about prevention of the Retail credit nightmare is Grant Van Zyl, Financial Planner, at HVZ Financial Consultants.
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CNBC AFRICA: Grant Van Zyl on retirement planning
CNBC Africa's Lindsay Williams talks to Grant Van Zyl, Certified Financial planner at The Wealth Room about the "management of money" and discuss on retirement planning, pension funds, living annuities and investments and savings.
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Is South Africa that bad after all?
Can you believe that we are in the year of 2015 already and how fast the years seem to be flying by?! I am sure that over the holiday season, you had at least one conversation with someone regarding the state that South Africa is in, and I am sure that that conversation didn’t have a very positive tone to it, after all that South Africans have had to endure in 2014. Let’s have a quick recap of the kind of year South Africa faced in 2014. For starters Eskom taught us how to be way more romantic, with candle light dinners every other night. We have learnt (or at least it seems so) to accept our president for all of his flaws and corruption charges. We learnt that the best way to combat a fire on your property is to build a big swimming pool. We found out that our president has spent ov
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