Cosatu targets private pensions; SA-US PTA reviewed; Tiger Brands CEO retires; Diamonds, Quilter

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In today's business headlines:
- Cosatu wants the government to consider making it mandatory for private pension funds to invest part of the money they control in infrastructure;
- The South African government will tell the Trump Administration that its review of a preferential trade agreement that could put as much as $2.4bn in exports at risk, is premature and potentially damaging for both economies;
- De Beers Diamond Sales have jumped after a terrible year for gems;
- Quilter beat expectations after the end of 2019 saw it return to net inflows with shares rising on the JSE; and
- The Chief Executive Officer of Tiger Brands, Lawrence MacDougall will retire this week leaving Africa’s biggest packaged-food company that is still battling the fallout of a deadly outbreak of listeriosis linked to one of its factories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
29 Jan 2020 1PM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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