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The engineer and the market: Chetan Ramlall   

How to keep a cool head in asset management when the market has succumbed to emotion and bias

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Beware the blindspot, warns AI fundi Warren Buhai   

Using data more smartly and smoking out his own blindspots has been key to Stanlib portfolio manager Warren Buhai’s evolution on the JSE

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How Shoprite’s bet on South Africa paid off 

The retailer is keeping suppliers and shoppers on board thanks to a ruthless handle on its selling costs

Optasia CEO Salvador Anglada. Supplied

Wobbly start for Optasia as bubble talk rattles markets

There’s more than AI-hype to its credit scoring models, says the JSE’s newest fintech listing

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Has extreme poverty really plunged since the 1980s? New analysis suggests not

The traditional way of measuring extreme poverty may be off the mark, a growing body of research suggests

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Blue Label is up 400% — one analyst believes it can double again

Many believed Cell C would be the death of the company started by the Levy brothers. Thanks to a remarkable rally, Blue’s backers may see another windfall

Gerrie Fourie and Risenga Maluleke

Fourie vs Stats SA: a final word

You don’t need to stay in your lane, as some have suggested, to question why South Africa’s unemployment rate is so much of an outlier

Checkers Sixty60 bike.

Shoprite is so Xtra right now

Sixty60’s ubiquitous scooters are a visual reminder of Shoprite’s five years of market share gains. The six months to end-December were no different

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A Maziv blow

The Competition Tribunal’s decision to block cellphone giant Vodacom’s bid to buy Vumatel owner Maziv has sparked a vigorous debate about whether the decision is a brave attempt…