QUALITY HAS THE LAST SAY
By David Furlonger
Classic cars used to be good business for SA owners - too good. In the 1980s, foreign buyers snapped up an estimated 75% of the country's classics. SA-based Jaguar E-Types, Austin Healeys and MGs were well maintained and mostly free o...

LEANER AND MEANER?
By Andrew McNulty
This week's shake-up at Barloworld came swiftly and unexpectedly. By announcing a plan to unbundle its 72% stake in cement & lime producer PPC, the group has done much to allay investor concerns about the valuations of assets in its...

LISTING OPENS DOORS
By Brendan Ryan
The recent listing of GVM Metals on the JSE adds another coal stock to the bourse and reflects growing opportunities as Eskom looks for additional suppliers and the export market opens up to junior players. There are now five coal s...

KEEP IT COMING
By Brendan Ryan
Quote: "Bringing on board Implats as our strategic partner should finally silence all those critics who have maintained that the Afplats project was too deep" Quote: - ROY PITCHFORD The acquisition of AfriOre by Lonmi...

BRAIT BUILDS ITS BACKING
By Stuart Theobald
Brait has butted heads with fellow private equity house Ethos in the battle to buy out and delist Consol Glass. The two local private-equity giants have managed in the past to keep off each other's turf. Brait has showed it is mad...

SCALE HAS GOOD NEWS
By Stephen Cranston
It's not often that a pension fund administrator gets the opportunity to double in size with one deal. Metropolitan Employee Benefits has achieved this with the purchase of Transnet's pension fund administrator (TPFA) in a tightly co...

GROWTH POTENTIAL
By Andrew McNulty
The plan to unbundle Tongaat-Hulett into two listed companies, each with focus ed management and strong, broad -based black economic empowerment (BEE) shareholdings, should draw investors' attention to the growth potential in both co...

THINGS FALL INTO PLACE
By Stafford Thomas
Four years of hefty capex and seven strategic acquisitions are paying off for UCS. After a blistering 50% increase in earnings per share at the interim stage, the retail software and services group went on to produce an even more sp...

INVESTMENT OF THE WEEK
By Stafford Thomas
Who is it for: Those seeking an aggressively managed fund that focuses on smaller companies offering value and the prospect of above-average capital growth. How risky: Many smaller companies are in an early phase of their growth cycles and h...

LINKED PRODUCTS
By Stephen Cranston
Linked products make up one of the least-known components of the retail investment market. Yet statistics released for the first time by the Linked Investment Service Providers' Association (Lispa) show it is a R191bn industry. ==li1=...

BROADCASTING & ENTERTAINMENT
By Stafford Thomas
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