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Daily English South Africa Business · Investing
4,345 Episodes
1112 – 1132

Get SA Working initiative

FinTech SME capital provider, ProfitShare Partners recently secured a whopping R100-million from the SA SME Fund. With this funding, ProfitShare Partners will be able to partner with small and medium businesses to help accelerate growth for SME’s. ProfitShare Partners provides disruptive alternative funding to SME’s which have a contract with…
26 Aug 2020 12PM 9 min

Wealth Feature: Dash from cash: bond & stock bulls

What is the smart money doing right now as life starts to return to some semblance of normality? The Bank of America Merrill Lynch South Africa Fund Manager Survey shows a Dash from cash and a stampede of bond & stock bulls. Michael Avery speaks to John Morris, Investment Strategist…
26 Aug 2020 12PM 5 min

Bidcorp interim results

Bidcorp, the global food services company spun off from Bidvest in 2016, said the post-Covid-19 recovery had been faster than expected, and it was somewhat more optimistic about the next 12-18 months.The group, which delivers to the food services industry, reported FY HEPS decreased by 48,6% to 741,3 cents per…
26 Aug 2020 12PM 4 min

View from the market

Wayne McCurrie, portfolio manager, FNB Wealth and Investments & Nerina Visser, director, ETF strategist and financial advisor at etfSA
26 Aug 2020 12PM 11 min

Roundtable – Executive remuneration and financial metrics

About a quarter of Pick n Pay shareholders voted against its executive pay policy recently, almost triggering a JSE rule that would have required the food retailer to formally take steps to tackle their concerns. The non-binding vote at the food retailer's recent virtual shareholder meeting shines a harsh spotlight…
25 Aug 2020 1PM 25 min

Imperial Logistics results

Imperial Logistics reported a 65% fall in full-year earnings, largely due to the impact of Covid-19 on revenue, associated once-off costs and impairments and further restructuring at home.The ground freight firm handled fewer containers in the second half of its financial year due to lockdown restrictions in various countries. April…
25 Aug 2020 12PM 9 min

View from the market

Rob Towell, portfolio manager at Sasfin Securities & Jordan Weir, trader at Citadel
25 Aug 2020 12PM 13 min

Govt kicks off procurement process for 2000MW of emergency power

On Saturday 22 August, the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy said in a statement that it had “issued the Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Risk Mitigation Independent Power Producers Procurement Programme (RMIPPPP).” The headline of the statement said it was an “emergency power procurement programme”….But Chris Yelland energy…
24 Aug 2020 2PM 9 min
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