[TOP STORY] The average return rarely exists over time

‘Your top five [S&P 500] contributors to returns have tended to generate about 29% of the return of the index in any given year’ – Sean Ashton, Private Clients, Old Mutual Wealth.

Rand Swiss’s Viv Govender on what’s behind Oracle’s share price surge. Marriot’s Lourens Coetzee on why investors shouldn’t let relative performance be their guiding star. Old Mutual Wealth’s Sean Ashton on big tech’s outsized role in returns – and how to manage that concentration.

Tax Consulting SA’s Shuanita de Wet explains how to properly step out of Sars’s net when relocating abroad.

FNB Wealth & Investments’s Sithembile Bopela unpacks the Anglo American–Teck “merger of equals” – is it really a winning strategy? Stats SA’s Joe de Beer breaks down South Africa’s Q2 GDP – what’s working, and what’s worrying. Tax Consulting SA’s Shuanita de Wet on how to properly step out of…

CompCom’s Raksha Darji highlights how administered prices are putting the real squeeze on households.