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St. Lucia ready to accept applications for citizenship by investment
Saint Lucia, an island nation in the eastern Caribbean, has announced its first citizenship by investment programme on 7 October at Arton Capital's third Annual Global Citizen Forum... read


Finance
Striking financial marketing gold

Leigh Andrews

Financial marketing's not easy. Especially when your work's being judged on a global scale, as just happened with this week's announcement of winners in The Midas Awards® for the World's Best Financial Advertising... read
SA has the Midas magic touch!
NEWSWATCH: The Midas Awards® for the World's Best Financial Advertising have just announced the award winners for the 2015 competition, with three SA agencies striking gold... read
Applying for a loan as an expat

Boris Dzhingarov, Issued by Monetary Library

There's a good chance that you'll have to spend some extra time and effort getting a loan in a country you weren't born in. But don't let that stop you. Here are some ways to make the whole process go a lot easier... read
Insurance & Actuarial
Travel insurance can make or break a journey

Bertus Visser

The end of the year is just around the corner, and some of you may be planning to jet overseas or visit family up country... read
Ways to find a great insurance agency

Boris Dzhingarov, Issued by Monetary Library

With so many companies all offering the same services, finding the right insurance agency can be time-consuming and difficult. Here are some practical ways you can find the right agency... read
Education & Training
Absa launches ReadytoWork in South Africa
Following the successful roll-out of 'ReadytoWork' in six countries, Absa has launched the employability initiative, which helps to train and equip young people for the world of work, in South Africa... read
Financial Services
Why lending through community-based organisations makes sense

Gift Dafuleya

Over the past half a century lending to the poor has taken on many different forms. The microfinance movement began in earnest when Muhammad Yunus, the then-economics professor at Bangladesh University, came up with the idea of providing small loans using his personal funds to local villages in the 1970s... read
Markets & Investment
Turning stokvels into businesses
Collectively, stokvels are said to contribute about R44-billion a year to the national economy... read
Investment environment teaches new lessons

Anet Ahern

Every year the investment environment affirms some of the lessons of the past, and teaches us a few new ones - and 2015 was no different... read
Actis invests R760m in Food Lover's Market
Actis, a multi-asset emerging market investor with headquarters in London, has announced an investment of R760m ($54m) in Food Lover's Market. The private equity firm is acquiring a substantial minority stake in the business and... read
INTL FCStone's Stuart Ponder addresses Africa Breakfast Club
Stuart Ponder, senior vice president, EMEA of NTL FCStone Ltd., a subsidiary of NTL FCStone Inc., addressed the Africa Breakfast Club on the topic of the evolution of structured markets... read
Commodity and Index CFDs: With and without expiration dates

Boris Dzhingarov, Issued by Monetary Library

Over the last 15 years Contract for Difference (CFD) trading has become more and more popular. A convenient speculative instrument, CFD trading has numerous advantages over trading on the stock exchange... read
What are the advantages of stock trading?

Boris Dzhingarov, Issued by Monetary Library

Stock trading has become increasingly popular due to the introduction of CFD. A contract for difference or CFD is an agreement between two parties for exchanging the difference between the opening and closing price of a contract... read
Business
Making hard decisions, easier

Deirdre Elphick-Moore

Each day we make thousands of decisions. Most are fairly insignificant, but others carry weight and consequences, like some of the decisions you find yourself having to make... read
Jobs offered
Senior Economic Research Officer - Cape Town
Ayanda Mbanga CommunicationsThe City of Cape Town currently seeks to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced senior economic research officer Ref OCM 05/15. Applications close: 18 December 2015 Read more >>




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