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- “If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.” – Archbishop Desmond Tutu

“Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus. ” - Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister, 1979 - 1990

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Our portfolio managers unpack the burning issues impacting the investment landscape today.

“We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!” – Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Passing breeze or real winds of change?

Shifting growth dynamics and inflation uncertainty

Inflation – it’s time to pay attention

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Post-pandemic recovery in the balance of vaccines and a return of confidence

“If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.” – Economist John Maynard Keynes

“Battles are never the end of the war” – former US President James Garfield

Life in the time of coronavirus

Pause and reflect.

Inverted yield curves, negative bond yields, liquidity everywhere and not a drop to drink

Restoring confidence is key to growth recovery

Restoring confidence is key to growth recovery

The trade war between the US and China is not ending anytime soon, notwithstanding the efforts of presidents Trump and Xi to make nice on the sidelines of the Osaka G20 Summit.

“Invest for the long haul. Don’t get too greedy and don’t get too scared.” – Shelby M.C. Davis

World economy balancing on regional tensions and precarious geopolitical alliances

Feeling in the dark? Shining a light on uncertainty

2018 in review

“The trouble is, you think you have time.” – Gautama Buddha

How worried should investors be?

Cyril Ramaphosa’s ANC needs to save South Africa from economic déjà vu