Investec Focus Radio SA
Investec Focus Radio South Africa features conversations between leading minds from within Investec and other experts on economic, investment and business topics in addition to issues that go beyond wealth.
How business can help save South Africa
Sir Richard Branson and Stephen Koseff discuss South Africa's current challenges, the need to reimagine education and how business can help government with issues like climate change.
How diversity builds business advantage
Talking on a panel at the recent Virgin Atlantic Business is an Adventure event, Faith Popcorn, Thando Hopa, Marc Kahn and Tashmia Ismail-Saville discussed how diversity and inclusion has a direct impact on the bottom line.
Sir Richard Branson on the power of purpose
Headlining the recent Business is an Adventure event, Sir Richard Branson spoke to South African entrepreneur Marnus Broodryk and Investec Co-Founder Stephen Koseff about the role business needs to play in society and shared ideas on solving South Africa's youth unemployment crisis.
Yavi Madurai: How breast cancer changed me
Digital transformation strategist Yavi Madurai was diganosed with breast cancer at 28. Here's her inspirational story about beating all the odds and how the disease transformed her for the better.
Part 3: Overcoming the financial toxicity of cancer treatment
With new-generation immunotherapy drugs costing up to R1 million per patient in South Africa, the eye-watering cost of cancer treatment is blocking access to life-saving drugs.
Part 2: Removing the blame game from lung cancer
While smoking is linked to about 80% to 90% of lung cancer cases, the stigma extends to non-smokers too, like Monica Dos Santos who was 23 and pregnant when she was diagnosed.
Food waste management: Turning waste into energy
In South Africa where 50% of the population is food insecure, the fact that we waste 30% of all the food produced is preposterous. This World Food Day we examine the true cost of this waste and give some practical tips on how you can turn this imbalance around.
Part 1: Busting breast cancer myths
The first in a three-part women's health podcast series by Investec Life features experts including renowned Professors Carol Benn and Georgia Demetriou; clinical psychologist Grant Statham and Sinenhlanhla Nzama, Investec Life head product actuary, to talk about the medical, psychological and financial aspects of a diagnosis.
Saving for South Africa - part three
Retiring the concept of retirement. Listen to Dr Adrian Saville and Jenny Crwyse-Williams discussing the new opportunities and challenges that present themselves in modern day retirement.
Saving for South Africa - part two
Moving the needle towards a savings culture. A conversation between René Grobler, Head of Investec Cash Investments, JSE (CFO ) Aarti Takoordeen as well as ENCA’s Uveka Rangapapa.
Rory Sutherland: how behavioural science is leading 21st century organisations
Rory Sutherland, TED speaker and author of ‘Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don’t Make Sense’ talks to Marc Kahn, Investec's global head of human resources and organisational development.
Impact investing: Stephen Koseff talks to Aunnie Patton Power
Former Investec CEO Stephen Koseff talks to Aunnie Patton Power, a leading voice in the growing field of impact investing, about why investors are increasingly seeking to generate societal as well as financial returns.
Abey Mokgwatsane on finding your purpose
As a marketer, aligning your purpose with that of the brand you work for is the secret to career success, says Vodacom head of brand and communications, Abey Mokgwatsane. Mokgwatsane spoke to Danni Dixon, head of Marketing for Investec South Africa, about his journey from advertising to corporate marketing at…
4IR and Africa: Promise or peril?
The fourth industrial revolution (4IR) is unfolding on the continent, bringing with it African solutions for African problems. But is it a threat to livelihoods or does it provide an opportunity for Africa to leapfrog the earlier industrial revolutions?
Saving for South Africa - part one
“A country needs to save its way to prosperity”. René Grobler, head of Investec Cash Investments and Dr Adrian Saville from the Gordon Institute of Business Science discuss the findings of the latest Investec GIBS Savings Index and the importance of saving for South Africa.
Is Libra the beginning of the end of traditional money?
Investec's Chris Becker says the advent of Facebook's Libra is a watershed moment that signals the effective privatisation of money; the opportunities of which are numerous and super exciting.
“Quantitative easing is not an option for South Africa”
In a week of economic and political turmoil, Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, Lesetja Kganyago made it very clear that the sole mandate of the central bank was to maintain price stability.
A streamlined Cabinet to rekindle SA’s economic prospects
Tertia Jacobs, Treasury Economist at Investec ICIB talked to political analyst, Dr Somadoda Fikeni, about the economic, political and social impact of the Cabinet changes during a recent Investec client conference call.
SA water: How to stop a runaway problem
Water availability is one of the biggest threats facing South Africa’s people and businesses. 46% of municipalities cannot fulfil their water and waste mandate. Investec Focus sat down with Alex McNamara, an environmental and water expert at the National Business Institute (NBI) to discuss how to fix SA's water crisis.
Can Eskom prove the markets wrong?
With the markets already pricing in a pessimistic outcome for the Eskom energy crisis, even a small improvement in the electricity situation could open up opportunities in the SA bond and equity markets. Chris Holdsworth, investment strategist at Investec Wealth & Investment, talks about this and the economic impact of…