If someone came to you tomorrow with R100m to invest in just one company, which would it be? Unibail-Rodamco. The company has great management and owns some of the best malls in major cities across Western Europe. It’s been ahead of the game, having cleaned up its portfolio and sold less dominant malls. It stands out as being well-positioned to withstand the rise in e-commerce, and it continues to adjust, adapting to new shopping patterns or trends. Its sales, rentals, footfall, earnings and valuations continue to grow. Its debt is well-managed and it has a good development pipeline. Which talent would you most like to have? To be multilingual. I would like to speak Mandarin, Arabic, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Japanese and Swahili. It would make it easy when travelling for business or leisure. If you found a lottery ticket tomorrow that had won US$100m, what would you do? I’d donate 25% to an orphanage, give 25% to my family and extended family, set aside 10% for travelling t...

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