BRIAN KANTOR: Be grateful for not-so-small mercies
Declining SA-specific risks, higher JSE stocks and stronger rand have attribute to much-improved financial condition of South Africans
28 January 2021 - 14:59
There is some very good news to cheer South Africans up. They are a lot wealthier than they were when the lockdowns were announced in March. And wealthier than they were on January 1 2020.
If their wealth has been diversified through the JSE, average shareholders will be 70% better off than they were in March and 13% up on their portfolios of January 1 2020...
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