THREATS TO PROFIT MARGINS SURE TO SHAKE UP ASSET MANAGEMENT
By Andrew McNulty
Here is a racing certainty: we can expect to see some significant shake-ups in the domestic asset management sector over the next year or two. The market had a taste of this in recent days, when news leaked out that Gensec Asset Management h...

FINDING VALUE IN UK PROPERTY ASSETS
By Andrew McNulty
With the sale of its shares in the UK property group, Liberty International, Stanbic takes another step towards cleaning up its investments and focusing the deployment of its capital on business operations. Most of the total £514m (R5,3...

TAKING THE ENGINE TO MARKET
By Andrew McNulty
It seems almost incongruous that Wooltru's share price falls to a new 12-month low on the same day the group announces its intention to list Massmart, its wholesale and retail subsidiary. In principle, the listing plan was confirmed in Wooltru...

MORE AREAS OF COMMON INTEREST
By Andrew McNulty
There has been much comment about what some see as a rich price, but the strategic impact of Anglo American's roughly US850m purchase of Shell Coal is probably the more interesting part. It is yet another hefty investment in assets held outsid...

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