Have We Become Too Comfortable?

The New Normal Isn’t Normal In today’s investment and financial planning landscape, information is abundant – insight scarce. Every day brings a new headline or prediction and so with it a reason to feel anxious or optimistic. At Southwood Financial Planning we...

SpaceX IPO Deep Dive: The Hype, the Price, and the Opportunity

We dig into the potential scope of the Starlink market, SpaceX’s impact on the industrial gas investment space, and our perspective on xAI and orbital computing. WRITTEN BY: Nicolas Owens | Equity Analyst, Aerospace & Defense, Suryansh Sharma | Director of Equity...

Over Coffee Market & Economic Commentary | May 2026

INFLATION | South Africa’s annual inflation rate rose to 4% in April 2026 – the highest reading since August 2024. SA RATES | The South African Reserve Bank raised its key repo rate by 25 bps to 7% in May – marking its first rate hike since...

The risks beneath the index, the opportunities beyond

WRITTEN BY: Siobhan Simpson | Head of SA Unit Trusts | Ninety One For more than a decade, passive investing has been one of the defining trends in global asset management. Low costs, simplicity, and strong performance have made index-tracking strategies increasingly...

The Middle East over the past 24 hours.

Herewith a brief note from the Nedgroup Investments multi-manager team providing an update on developments in the Middle East over the past 24 hours.