Last month was a difficult month for global markets where the ‘October Effect’ was in full force. Simply put, the ‘’October Effect’’ is a theory that stocks tend to decline during the month of...

Last month was a tough market for both equity and fixed income investors with the MSCI ACWI declining 0.1% and the major global fixed income index (ICE BofAML Global Broad Market) declining 0.5%....

We are currently experiencing the second longest lasting bull market in history (with the longest being the 1987 – 2001 bull market). With market prices, in general, being elevated relative to their...

A recent article published in the journal Joule, noted that it is likely that the Bitcoin network could be using as much as 7.7 gigawatt (GW) of electricity by the end of the year. How much is 7.7...

Recently it came to light that Facebook wasn’t as bothered as it let on when it came to keeping their users’ data private. A political consulting company named Cambridge Analytica managed to obtain...

Recently, investors have been asking us whether the recent steep price declines of Steinhoff and the Resilient Group of companies are presenting good buying opportunities. After all, Steinhoff’s...

“I would not look to the U.S. Constitution, if I were drafting a Constitution…I might look at the Constitution of South Africa. That was a deliberate attempt to have a fundamental instrument of...

The recent relative strength of the Rand can be partly attributed to the market’s positive perception of the election of Cyril Ramaphosa as president of the ANC. In fact, the market has largely...