Property the darling of the third quarter
For the third quarter of this year, property outperformed the other asset classes substantially, continuing the trend of the last few years. According to RisCUpdate, a quarterly market overview from investment consultant and analytics provider RisCura, for the 3 months to end September property returned 10.98%. However, for the 12 months to end...
Africa’s Private Equity Landscape
Africa's private equity landscape is proving more and more attractive. Competition is rising on several fronts. First time entrants are circling the region looking for assets, while fund raisers are hoping to bring some twelve billion dollars to the continent. Joining ABN’s Karima Brown from Cape Town is Rory Ord, Head of RisCura Fundamentals,...
Large asset managers outperform inflation
The largest asset management houses comfortably beat inflation over both one and three years to the end of October 2012. This is according to the RisCView Big 12 Barometer from RisCura Consulting, which was released today. An important tool for the retirement fund industry, the Barometer tracks the performances of the global balanced portfolios...
GEPF Golf Day
RisCura was a sponsor of this year’s GEPF Golf Day on Friday, 2 November 2012, at the Centurion Country Club. 120 players enjoyed a relaxing afternoon of golf followed by dinner and prize giving. All proceeds of the day went to the GEPF’s adopted school, the Mutjoli Primary School in Soweto. RisCura appreciated the opportunity...
AfricaSIF.org Launches First-Ever Pan-African Research Project on Investment Management and ESG
– 28 September 2012 Embargoed until midnight SAST 27 September 2012 – CAPE TOWN, South Africa, 28 September 2012 – How much investment in Africa today proactively integrates environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) factors? A new research project has been launched today to find answers by mapping the marketplace for sustainable...
Driving the improvement of retirement fund investing standards
Over our twelve-year business history, the foundation of our business has been to drive the improvement of retirement fund investing standards in South Africa and beyond. Our push for technical excellence has made us develop tools for the South African and African financial services industries that assist in making the industry a more transparent, more...
RisCura’s ESG Workshop – Practical Protection of What Matters
The benefit of prioritising ESG (environmental, social and governance) issues in the investment process has become clearer. Regulation 28 and CRISA require that ESG issues be considered by trustees. Yet questions linger around the practical implementation. What are the tools and insights your fund needs to succeed? RisCura and the Principles for Responsible...
Enhanced Reporting for Better Investment Performance
How do RisCura’s clients keep better updated and informed than their investment industry peers? The answer lies in RisCura’s online client portal – providing real-time access to monitoring and reporting around every aspect of a fund’s management, performance and regulatory compliance. More than a decade...
