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Arno Loots: Provident fund changes a setback, but not fatal reverse for SA's savings culture
The last minute abortion of proposed changes to S…
Rural Shopping Centres delivering market beating returns year after year
The Futuregrowth Community Property Fund was laun…
Clem Sunter to Malema - I'm an Economic Freedom Fighter too, here's why
Interviewing Clem Sunter on his latest book, Flag…
Biznews' Global Share Portfolio Jan 2016 - Rand hedge paying dividends
Alec Hogg takes us through the performance and cu…
Davos Diary Day 4: Nuclear ease, gender equality and better sleep
The trillion dollar nuclear program proposed for …
Davos Diary Day 5: 2016, wasted booms and pearly whites
As the town of Davos returns to normality and the…
John Defterios: Why the oil price is going back above $50 this year
Next to Arabian royalty, business journalist John…
Muhammad Yunus: Break slavery's legacy. Don't ask for a job. Make your own.
My 13 visits to Davos have produced many intervie…
Gideon Rachman: SA must stop scoring own goals. It's a tougher world today
Financial Times columnist Gideon Rachman is one o…
Nicolaas Kruger: Pravin making difference, thawing Business/Govt ice floe
Every Government, like every business, strives to…
WEF urbanisation expert, Cape's partner Carlo Ratti, designing the future
Architect, engineer, designer and MIT professor C…
Jennifer Blanke: Times have changed, errant nations have no room for error
There has been a consistent message at the 46th W…
Stephen van Coller: Banks won’t be disrupted to death - provided embrace change
Until his retirement, former FNB chief executive …
Welcome to the "Anternet" - debunking man’s desire for hierarchy, control
The more mankind uncovers the secrets of nature, …
Matsi Modise: SA Global Shaper makes plenty waves in snowy Davos
World Economic Forum founder Prof Klaus Schwab is…
SA’s “cool Gogo” leveraging UN, multinationals: Full women equality 2030
Former South African Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka has enlisted the “enemy” to fight for global gender equality. After her hugely successful HeForShe initiative attracted over a billion people on social media, in Davos this morning the UN’s Executive Director for Women took the wraps off her latest innovation. This time…
Davos Diary Day 3: C++ coded Presidents, socialism and Donald Trump
As Davos enters the middle stretch conversation is hopscotching from automation to Donald Trump back to the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Alec spent most of his day with the International Media Council, which had three presidents present. He was most impressed by one of the youngest, Canada's Justin Trudeau, who's got…
Davos Diary Day 2: Trust Barometers, Gordhan and the 21st century Renaissance
Day two in Davos and Alec Hogg’s been jumping from session to session as the town engulfs itself with the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It was an early start as Alec engaged himself in Edelman’s annual trust barometer. Not the news many South Africans want to wake up to though, only…
Inspirational: Solar Impulse duo proving energy’s future, trashing nuclear
Some spectacular individuals choose to promote good causes by testing their bodies to the extreme. Like South Africa’s Lewis Pugh who regularly swims in near freezing seas to highlight the plight of the oceans. Swiss explorer/adventurer Bertrand Piccard is made of the same stuff. I first met him in Davos…
Ian Goldin: SA must adjust to world's seismic change, a new battle of ideas
Davos in January is full of fascinating people with illuminating insights. Among the best I’ve been exposed to this year is Oxford University Professor Ian Goldin’s thesis the Fourth Industrial Revolution (or, as some prefer, the Second Machine Age) should rather be called The New Renaissance. Because, like the last…