Ashburton Investments, the asset management arm of the FirstRand Group, has entered a strategic partnership with Fidelity International, the $324bn global asset manager, the companies announced today.…
Momentum Wealth International, the Guernsey-based investment platform of Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed, South African insurance and financial services company MMI Holdings, is discontinuing its use of the marketing…
The UK’s financial regulator has warned unauthorised purveyors of ‘dubious investments’ that there is no hiding place as it won its latest judgement – worth £16.9m –…
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority has extended its amnesty for those with undeclared assets that were accrued prior to 1 December, 2017, with the scheme now set to end…
Standard Chartered Bank has unveiled a digital operation in Côte d’Ivoire that it says represents its “first-ever digital bank in Africa”, and retained one of the country’s…
UAE-based Holborn Assets has opened an office in Johannesburg and recruited an eight-strong team of advisers as the company pursues a global expansion during 2018. The new…
Carrick Wealth Management, the Cape Town, South Africa advisory firm headed by Craig Featherby, has opened an office in Blantyre, Malawi, bringing to five the number of…
Foreign investors seeking to buy offshore property can now do so in the idyllic Tanzanian archipelago of Zanzibar. The East African nation is, for the first time…
South Africa’s finance minister, Malusi Gigaba, has announced that the offshore investment allowance for institutional investors will be increased from 25% to 30%. The changes were announced…
Global trade has done wonders for investors and consumers by reducing prices and increasing returns. By shifting production to low labour cost areas it has helped lift…
Ocorian, the acquisitive Jersey-based trust, alternative investment, corporate and private client services business that re-branded from Bedell Trust in 2016, has announced its second acquisition in less…
Sanlam UK Sanlam UK, the British arm of the South Africa-based and listed Sanlam financial services group, said it has named David Mason chief operating officer, succeeding…