Classic Business

Kevan Govender, manager at Business Partners

Dr Eric Levenstein, head of business rescue at Werksmans Attorneys

CEO Dominic Sewela

Nick Kunze, portfolio manager at Sanlam Private Wealth & Simon Brown, founder of JustOne Lap

Michael Avery brings you closer to South Africa’s business leaders, what makes them tick, keeps them up at night and keeps them soldiering. This week’s guest went from King Davids High School, to studying accounting and tax at Wits, and then became a taxi boss and a debt collector, sounds like a good a Jewish boy made good, David Hurwitz, CEO of Transaction Capital, shares how the reluctant CEO has grown into the role by surrounding himself with smart people.

Warwick Lucas, CIO of Galileo Asset Management & Prof Raymond Parsons, from School of Business and Governance at North West University

This has been an unusually exciting month for Exchange Traded Funds in the country. Not only because of the confusion created by Treasury’s stance in inward listed ETFS and regulation 28, but because on November 27th, the industry marked exactly 20 years since the first ever ETF was listed on the Johannesburg Securities exchange. The rise in popularity of exchange traded funds, etfs, has seen over R120bn flow into these products in this the 20th year since the first was brought to market by provider Satrix. Michael Avery looks back on the last 20 years with the man who brought the first ETF to market Mike Brown, Managing Director and Financial Advisor of etfSA; Helena Conradie, CEO of Satrix; & Len Jordaan, Director, Head of South Africa and sub-Sahara Africa Sales at S&P Dow Jones Indices, and they talk about the rise and future of ETFs.

Greg McDonald, chief executive of financial services portfolio at Edge Growth

Like it or loathe it, Black Friday continues to drive sales and brands ignore it at their peril.The Brandfather Jeremy Sampson MD of Brand Finance Africa, talks to Michael Avery about how brands remain relevant in the cacophony of black Friday noise. And Elon Musk, now the second wealthiest person in the world. From Bryanston and Pretoria Boys High. Fantastic: PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, solar panelling, batteries, underground transit systems and more. Sampson rails against former Cabinet Minister Derek Hanekom tweeting that Musk should give South Africa a handout!

Louis Theron, head of investments at Liberty Corporate