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 | Owning a rental property is seen by many as an investment, but enter into discussion with a landlord and soon you will discover that it can also be a very frustrating experience. Read more >>
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 | Issued by King Price When King Price first declared an insurance war by promising cheap car insurance premiums that decrease monthly, there were countless prophets of doom that predicted its downfall. Yet, it's now almost two years down the line and they've already had over 60,000 policyholders join the royal family. Read more >>
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 | Men are riskier than women when it comes to car insurance. Read more >>
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 | Issued by Meredith Harington We are challenged as a country with life-threatening diseases like HIV/AIDS and obesity. Our roads are dangerous and younger generations are confronted with cancer, high blood pressure and diabetes. Surely it makes sense to have proper life insurance if you have significant debt, or dependants totally reliant on you? Read more >>
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 | Small businesses experiencing cash flow problems can have serious consequences for the business, such as no salary for the owner until the crisis is resolved or, more seriously, a significant loss of business that could threaten the very existence of the small enterprise. Read more >>
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 | Traditionally accountancy played a fundamental role in facilitating tax compliancy, financial reporting and management of accounts - whether it is a blue chip corporate or a small business. Today, in the digital age, most of the compliancy, account management and reporting have been digitalised and the accountant's role in business has shifted. Read more >>
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 | South African shopping websites have missed the deadline for a new payment system that would protect online shoppers from fraud. Read more >>
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 | One of the United Kingdom's largest manufacturers of secure and non-secure plastic cards, Thames Card Technology (TCT), has been awarded a tender to be the sole supplier for the production, personalisation and distribution of one million Europay, MasterCard and Visa (EMV) chip payment cards for Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB). Read more >>
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 | Issued by UCT Graduate School of Business Any company operating on a global scale needs to have some kind of presence in or with China. But as many of the bigger multi-nationals have come to realise - doing business in China is not as simple as 1-2-3. Read more >>
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 | Issued by UCT Graduate School of Business With the petrol price going up, load shedding scheduled for all provinces across South Africa and the uncertain rand-dollar exchange, businesses need to be sure they are ready for the bumpy economic road ahead. Read more >>
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 | A new empowerment fund to be launched in May will allow large companies in the tourism sector to boost their empowerment scores by investing in small businesses. Read more >>
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 | In reaction to media reports that the average pension fund member is likely to obtain a pension of just 30% of their current income, Wayne Hiller van Rensburg, director of the Institute of Retirement Funds (IRF) Africa, says retirement funds appear to be failing their members. Read more >>
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 | On Thursday, 27 March, the Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank announced its decision to keep the repo rate at 5.5%. Read more >>
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 | Industrial freight‚ logistics and shipping group Grindrod's board of directors has approved an equity capital raising process that would lead to the total issue of Grindrod shares worth up to R4bn‚ with net cash proceeds of up to R3bn going to Grindrod‚ to fund projects‚ the company said last week. Read more >>
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 | Franny Rabkin Mobile operators MTN and Vodacom will know by today (31 March) whether they will have to cut their interconnection fees in half. Read more >>
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 | Nick Hedley The Tembisa Mega Mart development in Gauteng has a new buyer in the form of JSE-listed Delta Property Fund‚ after a previous deal to buy the township mall failed. Read more >>
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 | With the housing market in a much healthier position than what it has been for years, there is every reason to believe that it is poised for a rebound. Read more >>
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 | Amanda Visser The Competition Commission's 10-year-old case against South African Breweries' (SAB's) distribution system has been dismissed by the Competition Tribunal. Read more >>
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 | According to Bill Rawson, property pundits like himself, who advocate that property should form a large part of their investment portfolio, say 25% to 30%, are regularly taken to task by others who prefer the stock market as an investment channel and are inclined to point out that, although property may be a reasonably "safe" investment, its returns are very seldom spectacular. Read more >>
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 | A selection of business briefs from around the industrial and retail sectors that have occurred in the past few days. Read more >>
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 | Index tracking, or passive investing, contributes to effective savings practice in a number of ways. Joseph Pearson, portfolio manager at Momentum Asset Management, says passive investing assumes that markets are generally efficient and reflects the collective wisdom of all market players and thus facilitates the optimal distribution of capital. Read more >>
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 | Estate agents working in Langebaan, the attractive West Coast village just 100km from Cape Town, have only one message to give to those interested in the property prospects in the area. Read more >>
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 | Despite trying times for food producers and retailers, the dairy sector is doing fairly well, and heading the sector is Clover Industries' according to Vunani Securities analyst Anthony Clark. Read more >>
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 | Mike van Alphen The removal of adverse consumer credit information and information on paid up court judgments, published in new regulations of the National Credit Act 2005 on 25 February 2014 has caused some alarm in the property sector. Read more >>
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 | The price of a litre of 93-octane petrol will increase by 5 cents a litre while that of 95-octane petrol will increase by 7 cents a litre in Gauteng on Wednesday, 2 April 2014, the Energy Department has announced. Read more >>
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 | The South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) has launched a campaign for a greater share of state resources and this campaign will include a court action and a complaint to the Competition Commission. Read more >>
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 | Graeme Palmer The general deduction formula in section 11(a) of the Income Tax Act 58 of 1962 permits a taxpayer to deduct from his income, expenditure and losses actually incurred in the production of income, provided they are not of a capital nature. Read more >>
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 | Yasmin Kadwa and Katrijn Thys A credit provider is entitled to enforce a loan that is subject to a debt-restructuring order without notice to the debtor once that order has been breached. Read more >>
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: In a sign of the growing importance of the Internet "cloud," software group Cloudera said it raised a whopping US$900m to expand its large corporate data services. Read more >>
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 | MOSCOW, RUSSIA: Russia's leading car manufacturer, Avtovaz reversed into a net loss last year because of a sales slump on the Russian market, the company reported last week. Read more >>
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 | MONTREAL, CANADA: The struggling smartphone manufacturer BlackBerry reported a loss of US$423 million in the fourth quarter of its 2014 fiscal year, with revenues still falling. Read more >>
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Microsoft chief Satya Nadella took to Twitter to crow as Office software tailored for iPads soared to the top of the charts at Apple's online App Store. Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: The dark world of cybercrime has evolved from one of rogue individuals to a functioning market-based economy with its ups and downs, code of conduct and "innovation". Read more >>
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 | The National Credit Amendment Bill, approved by the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), will see the screws tightened on reckless lending. Read more >>
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 | In a special edition of the Daily Maverick's Election Edition of The Gathering, top politicians Zille, Gigaba, Ramphele; top trade unionists Vavi, Jim, and more - including the ANC's biggest pain, Thuli Madonsela - will be grilled by Daily Maverick and eNCA editors. And you can be there... Read more >>
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