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Gareth Stokes
Dec 9, 20246 min read
The ‘where Lambo’ crowd go gaga as bitcoin powers on through $100k {First published 6 December 2024}
The ‘where Lambo’ crowd were in rapture this week as the world’s dominant cryptocurrency, bitcoin (BTC), finally breached the...
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Gareth Stokes
Dec 9, 20245 min read
Financial advisers and fund managers prepare for challenges and opportunities in 2025 {First published 22 November 2024}
If you are involved in financial advising or fund management, the month or two around year-end becomes a frenzied blur of reporting on...
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Gareth Stokes
Dec 9, 20246 min read
Trump win could be tough for South Africa, other emerging markets {First published 8 November 2024}
You do not need a PhD to interpret the United States (US) financial markets’ response to that country’s hotly contested 2024 election...
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Gareth Stokes
Dec 9, 20246 min read
Mutterings about lower inflation target could scupper rate cut prospects {First published 25 October 2024}
The news that headline inflation dropped to 3.8% year-on-year in September 2024 will offer some respite to South Africa’s long-suffering...
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Gareth Stokes
Dec 9, 20246 min read
Why South Africa’s 3.3% GDP growth target falls short {First published 5 October 2024}
If you want to compete in track and field in the summer Olympics, you have to achieve a predetermined distance or time; and if you want...
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Gareth Stokes
Dec 9, 20245 min read
Is it just me, or does this 25 basis point cut feels like a slap in the face? {First published 20 September 2024}
After much dithering, the Monetary Policy Committee of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) finally kicked-off South Africa’s interest...
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Gareth Stokes
Dec 9, 20245 min read
Listen up! Technology is not a quick fix for all of your productivity problems
Are you among the millions who have embraced the mindset that ‘technology cures all ailments? If yes, then walking a few miles in your...
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Gareth Stokes
Jul 12, 20245 min read
Addressing consumer trust in financial services and elsewhere
The phrase treating customers fairly, or TCF for short, is so ingrained in South Africa’s financial services landscape that you would...
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Gareth Stokes
Jul 9, 20246 min read
Range of living annuity outcomes supports hands-on financial advice through retirement
Back in his mid-20s, your writer ran into some financial difficulties, forcing him to liquidate a small portfolio of unit trusts to make...
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Gareth Stokes
Jul 9, 20245 min read
Horror rape and murder conviction statistics set the scene for SA’s financial crime free-for-all
South Africans are a funny lot. Standing at the entrance of a major retailer over the weekend, your writer watched a stream of shoppers...
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Gareth Stokes
Jul 9, 20245 min read
National Elections 2024. The more things change, the more they stay the same
There is an age-old English saying that holds, “the more things change, the more they stay the same”. This is the sense your writer got...
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Gareth Stokes
Jul 9, 20245 min read
Electricity and healthcare: lessons entering and exiting SA’s dual crises
As this writer slumped over his keyboard trying to conjure up a topic for his fortnightly opinion piece, the President signed the...
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Gareth Stokes
Jul 9, 20245 min read
Election uncertainty, a double threat to South Africa Inc and you, the people
South Africa’s 29 May 2024 National Election promises a complicated and hard-to-understand three-ballot election process containing...
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Gareth Stokes
Jul 9, 20246 min read
Dissing Cathie, Man-U and Wall Street analysts in a single AI-focused tech-fund presentation
You have to congratulate a portfolio manager who disses Cathie Wood, Manchester United and Wall Street analysts in a single presentation....
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