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The Cannabis Craze – Flying High

The Cannabis Craze – Flying High

Over the past two years, various cannabis focussed companies have delivered between 337% and 455% for their investors. Tripling and quadrupling your money in two years is nothing to be coughed at. In late 2018 Canada become the first major country to formally legalize...
The Curious Case of the African Growth Story

The Curious Case of the African Growth Story

February was another positive month for the Fintax Funds with Growth adding 3.3% and Balanced adding 2.7% bringing the year to date returns to 12.9% and 10.7%, respectively. Rolling 12 months have improved markedly, given the sharp decline global markets experienced...
The Biggest Threat to Liverpool & Netflix

The Biggest Threat to Liverpool & Netflix

December 2018 was the worst performing December for the global stock market since the Great Depression and the worst performing month since the Global Financial Crisis in 2008. Fortunately, in January 2019 markets bounced back sharply with the MSCI All Countries World...
Markets Down, Value Up

Markets Down, Value Up

In December 2018, global equity markets suffered their worst monthly performance since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC), thereby dragging down the year’s returns. There were not a lot of places to hide with Qatar, Saudi Arabia and New Zealand being the...
The Goldilocks Zone

The Goldilocks Zone

2018 has been a tough year for investors across all major equity indices. Year-to-date up to 30/11/2018 the MSCI All Countries World Index (ACWI)is down 2.30%. During these bouts of volatility, a common topic for debate has typically been that a switch out of equities...
The October Effect

The October Effect

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 October. The events that have given October the reputation for stock losses...