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Nedbank Executive for Financial Wellness and Advisory Dr Frank Magwegwe reports an overall improvement in working South Africans’ financial health for a third consecutive year.

Nick Kunze from Sanlam Private Wealth on January’s steadier US inflation print, what the earnings season is revealing, and how Cell C’s maiden results stack up. Dr Frank Magwegwe from Nedbank weighs in as local consumers show tentative financial improvement, even as confidence remains fragile. Kristof Kruger from Prescient Securities…

Keith McLachlan of Element Investment Managers considers Anthropic’s new Claude Opus 4.6 tool for forecasting free cash flows and then discounting them back to a present value.

Schalk Louw from PSG Old Oak unpacks Anheuser-Busch InBev’s results – are drinkers buying less beer or just paying more for it? Keith McLachlan from Element Investment Managers explains how AI can now build robust discounted cash-flow models, what a DCF actually is, and how investors use it. Simon weighs…

Citadel chief economist Maarten Ackerman questions the trend’s sustainability but notes the differences between emerging markets.