Articles of Interest
May 3, 2023
FinTech, or financial technology, is certainly growing rapidly and disrupting the traditional financial services industry. Whether it is “taking over”, however, is a matter of perspective. […]
May 2, 2023
We are very pleased to bring to you the April 2023 edition of the Orion Investment Managers’ Optimum publication. It has been a challenging quarter for […]
April 26, 2023
A Living Will is a declaration or an advance directive which will represent a patient’s wish to refuse any medical treatment and attention in the form […]
April 25, 2023
An article written by Ian Kilbride A third scramble for Africa is unfolding – this time between China and the United States. The first notorious scramble […]
April 24, 2023
Ian Kilbride, Guest Editor for The Big Issue and Chairman of Spirit Invest and Spirit Foundation, and Honorary Professor at Stellenbosch Business school writes … To […]
April 21, 2023
SEEING SOUTH AFRICA FROM A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE The well-worn saying that “it is darkest just before the dawn” is particularly relevant to contemporary South Africa. Our […]
April 20, 2023
As Elephants Alive research has always been led by elephants, we decided to ask them to guide us this time as well! We studied elephants’ preferences […]
April 20, 2023
An article written by Ian Kilbride President Ramaphosa’s appointment of Dr Kgosientsho ‘Sputla’ Ramokgopa as Minister of Electricity is one of three things: inspired, desperate or […]
April 19, 2023
The month of March was characterized by large swings in global inflation and rate hike expectations. This prompted central banks, including our local Reserve Bank, to […]
April 18, 2023
An article written by Ian Kilbride The International Monetary Fund has a mixed record of global and macro-economic forecasting. It is notoriously poor at anticipating recessions. […]
April 12, 2023
An article written by Ian Kilbride Everton is many things to many people, but as the late great England world cup winner Alan Ball once said, […]
April 11, 2023
Business’s frustration with government is growing. This is unsurprising. What is more surprising is that its exasperation has been expressed most recently on a foreign policy […]