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5 Aug 2022anemptytextllineFollowing shortly on the heels of the June rate hike, the Fed again raised interest rates by 75 basis points in July. Locally, the SARB also front-loaded large hikes to curb inflation. -
4 Aug 2022anemptytextllineSouth Africa needs to move from coal to renewables and requires a just transition approach to ensure that people’s lives are not negatively impacted.
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1 Aug 2022anemptytextllineWe welcome the new energy plan for South Africa. The alternative – declaring an energy emergency – would have been a substantially weaker solution.
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14 Jul 2022anemptytextllineQ2 was a rough quarter for the markets. As inflation keeps on spiralling, more aggressive monetary policy is on the cards and markets are not taking the size of resultant interest rate hikes and the possibility of a global recession well. What else happened during the second quarter of 2022?
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5 Jul 2022anemptytextllineThe biggest news of June was the 75bps interest rate hike in the US, the largest increase since 1994, raising concerns that a recession might be on the way.
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3 Jun 2022anemptytextllineWith disturbingly high inflation, interest rates have to rise. In the US, the Fed announced the biggest interest rate increase since 2000 – 50 basis points.
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11 May 2022anemptytextllineApril was a tough month across the globe. Locally, KZN experienced one of the worst floods in its history. Other than the devastation on a human level, the port and major trade routes had to close down, and government declared a national state of disaster.
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26 Apr 2022anemptytextllineSanlam Investments has added the SIM* Flexible Income Fund to its core fund range. This is a retail unit trust targeted at investors with a one- to two-year time horizon. The fund opened investors from 1 April 2022.
