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12Jan, 2020

No financials, no finance

By: Marc Ashton
Categories: Our Views

South African entrepreneurs looking to access finance to grow their business, won’t make much progress if their financials are not in order. This is the advice shared by Ken Brown, the Master Franchisor at SME.Tax - one of South Africa’s most innovative accounting franchise groups. “We see it all the time, high-potentialRead More

12Jan, 2020

Curious about the profitability of your competitors?

By: Marc Ashton
Categories: Our Views

As an entrepreneur, there is an inherent curiosity about the financial performance of industry peers. Is your sector expanding or contracting? Are your peers seeing growth? Short of interrogating financial data of listed businesses, there are limited tools available to entrepreneurs to access this data in an affordable manner. ThisRead More

12Jan, 2020

FAQ: Late payments are killing my business – is there anything I can do?

By: Marc Ashton
Categories: Our Views

The South African small business sector is going through one of the toughest decades in living memory and many SMEs are battling with cashflow and getting paid by customers. This has a knock-on effect when it comes to paying staff, suppliers and the South African Revenue Services – which createsRead More

12Jan, 2020

FAQ: Can I buy offshore ETFs in South Africa?

By: Marc Ashton
Categories: Our Views

With offshore investing becoming an increasingly important aspect of wealth building for South Africans, one of the most common questions we receive is whether you can buy offshore Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) through local stockbrokers. The main considerations here are: ETFs are popular with investors as they reduce concentration riskRead More

12Jan, 2020

Small-cap shares we are currently watching – January 2020

By: Marc Ashton
Categories: Our Views

2020 has kicked off with no shortage of excitement, with global geo-political tension front-of-mind for many investors. While there has not been a lot to shout about in the last few years for small-cap investors on the JSE, there might be some light at the end of the tunnel. TheRead More

12Jan, 2020

South Africa has huge ‘green fuels’ potential. But it needs to act now

By: Marc Ashton
Categories: Our Views

David Richard Walwyn, University of Pretoria and Rod Crompton, University of the Witwatersrand South Africa needs to seriously start thinking about shifting its energy focus. This is for two reasons. The first is that the country’s important exports – coal and platinum – face potential collapse with the imminent shiftRead More

02Jan, 2020

Are you looking for a Fraud Prevention Solution for your business?

By: Marc Ashton
Categories: Our Views

One of the single biggest risks for businesses is loss of profits through employee fraud. South Africans have become well-conditioned to seeing reports of millions of Rands being stolen from businesses through Fraudulent transactions and Corrupt activities. Consider for a moment: Employee fraud could be costing your business up toRead More

16Dec, 2019

South Africa is missing out on fresh fruit export growth. What it needs to do

By: Marc Ashton
Categories: Our Views

South Africa’s fresh fruit industry is currently the largest exporter of agricultural products. Shutterstock Shingie Chisoro - Dube, University of Johannesburg and Pamela Mondliwa, University of Johannesburg South Africa’s urgent need to create jobs requires that the country take advantage of opportunities in the global economy that it can convertRead More

02Dec, 2019

Not all Private Equity (PE) funds are equal but they’re not all evil either

By: Marc Ashton
Categories: Our Views

Author: SAVCA Private equity (PE) has evolved significantly since the high-leverage era of the 80’s, when financial engineering was the name of the game. While cases of over-gearing do still exist, lumping all PE funds together as “bad” would be a grave disservice to the many funds driving real economicRead More

13Oct, 2019

[WATCH] Buy Bitcoin in 2019? How to Play the Cryptocurrency Market

By: Marc Ashton
Categories: Our Views

It’s been almost two years since cryptocurrency went mainstream. Back in the fall of 2017, the price of bitcoin rose over 500% in three months, as investors all suddenly became aware of the apparent future of payments and saw a flurry of headlines like: As Bitcoin Scrapes $10,000, an InvestmentRead More

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Marc Posts

No financials, no finance

Curious about the profitability of your competitors?

FAQ: Late payments are killing my business – is there anything I can do?

FAQ: Can I buy offshore ETFs in South Africa?

Small-cap shares we are currently watching – January 2020

South Africa has huge ‘green fuels’ potential. But it needs to act now

Are you looking for a Fraud Prevention Solution for your business?

South Africa is missing out on fresh fruit export growth. What it needs to do

Not all Private Equity (PE) funds are equal but they’re not all evil either

[WATCH] Buy Bitcoin in 2019? How to Play the Cryptocurrency Market

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