The easy money has been made, it’s time for investors to grit their teeth – Magnus Heystek 

Loading player...
The hard-hitting Magnus Heystek unpacks what has been a tough start to the year for the financial markets. Heystek, who has been bullish on technology-focused businesses –specifically in the US – for the better part of a decade, says he and his team are mulling over a change in strategy. It’s been all about the US stock markets, but a paradigm shift in the markets, together with economic policy, may favour investment returns in different destinations in the 10 years to follow. Europe and parts of Asia look especially encouraging, according to Heystek, who adds that the commodity boom has been a saving grace for the South African economy and treasury.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
27 Jan 2022 10AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

Other recent episodes

Neal Froneman on his bid to bring Formula One back to South Africa

He turned around mines others had written off and built Sibanye-Stillwater into a global giant. Now Neal Froneman wants to bring Formula One back to South Africa, on 600 hectares of Swartland farmland rather than at Kyalami. In conversation with Alec Hogg, the Blue Mountain Racing chairman explained why he…
27 Sep 11AM 43 min

Helen Zille on Joburg, coalitions and the price of power

She said she hadn't exchanged a single word with the ANC about a post-election deal. Helen Zille then told Alec Hogg who she thought was talking to them. The DA's Johannesburg mayoral candidate took on Corné Mulder's claim of a backdoor ANC pact and compared Gayton McKenzie's Patriotic Alliance to…
25 Sep 12PM 34 min

Why Jakkie Cilliers (ISS) guarantees Africa in 2050 will be far more stable than today

At a time when news headlines across Africa highlight political friction, economic distress and security concerns, a guarantee of better times ahead may sound almost provocatively optimistic. Yet Dr Jakkie Cilliers, founder of the Institute for Security Studies and head of its African Futures and Innovation Programme, bases that guarantee…
25 Sep 5AM 35 min

Andy Calitz on Eskom, the job he didn't get, and what came next

He was on the shortlist to run Eskom and lost out to André de Ruyter. Years later, Andy Calitz, who ran South Africa's transmission grid before a career that took him from Shell to Gazprom's control room and the helm of LNG Canada, still thinks about it most weeks. In…
25 Sep 3AM 55 min