Andrew Canter upbeat about direction SA's going, despite its economic challenges

JOHANNESBURG — The Chief Investment Office of Futuregrowth, Andrew Canter, was in the spotlight in 2016 when the fund manager took the unprecedented step of halting lending to six major SOEs. After reviewing these SOEs and conducting further reviews, Futuregrowth cleared some of them. Earlier this year, Futuregrowth also made the news again when it released a report entitled ‘SOE Governance Unmasked’, in which it decried the lack of transparency at SOEs in South Africa, especially for those companies with listed bonds. In this interview then, Canter provides updates on these two previous developments as well as his views on why he's still positive about South Africa, despite a current technical recession and a weak rand. (I apologise for some small parts of the audio where my dog can be heard barking in the background. The interview is so good that I couldn't cut it out!) - Gareth van Zyl