Category: Investment insights

Iain Anderson says that the move away from tracking the FTSE/JSE Dividend Plus index is not ‘trying to become something we’re not’. Sygnia’s proposal to...

Wondering what strategy is best for safely investing in your child’s future? Wonder no more. Wessel Brand, Portfolio Manager at Sygnia Asset Management, has crunched the...

About R800 billion is currently invested in balanced unit trusts in South Africa, and the average fee on these funds is about 1.5%. If 1.0%...

Sygnia has laid out the criteria it uses for selecting the active managers in its R906 million Sygnia Equity fund. The fund uses a core-and-satellite portfolio construction...

Global financial markets have rebounded strongly from March 2020’s low, but Sygnia’s Head of Investments Iain Anderson warns investors to start preparing for the bull’s...

The year is 2021. In most countries women have equal rights, at least on paper. But, writes Magda Wierzycka, the battle for equality is far...

In a strange twist of fate, the Covid-19 pandemic is likely to benefit global healthcare in the long-term, writes Iva Madjarova, Head of Investment Consulting at...

The fund manager believes these markets are a great place for investors to put their money over the next decade. Sygnia is overweight China and emerging...

Combined with decades-low interest rates, this backbreaking global debt has set the stage for dismal real returns (returns after accounting for inflation) in South African...

If you are not prepared to take risks with how you invest your retirement money, you may just be exposing yourself to a different risk...