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A handful of listed companies dominate the investment portfolios of local general equity funds.

Investment interest in "frontier" African markets - particularly Nigeria and Kenya - is on the rise.

A retired Fin24 user is looking at investing in a retirement annuity to provide him with a cash payout of R500 000 to ensure that he lives within his means. An expert responds.

A Fin24 user asks whether saving is better when debt is paid off or not.

A Fin24 user wants to know whether paying off a car loan or credit card will make her credit score 'look better.'

A Fin24 user who was forced into early retirement is struggling to pay credit card debt amounting to over R109 000. An expert responds.

A Fin24 user urgently seeks guidance on how to pay off debt owing to the amount of R82 000. An expert responds with workable solutions.

OK, most of us will never be able to enjoy the first growths from Bordeaux, but you don't have to spend a grand on a bottle to realise that when it comes to cabernet and merlot blends, Bordeaux is still the region to beat.

ONCE a staple of drive-thrus and fast food restaurants, burgers have had something of an image overhaul in recent years.

Quiet, crisp and clear winter days are perfect for exploring Scotland’s most spectacular coast and countryside scenery – especially with the promise of a wholesome, heart-warming meal and a cosy room after a day exploring. While Munro-bagging at this time of year might be a little too ambitious, Scotland has no shortage of shorter and more gentle winter walks, all within a stone’s throw of some of Scotland’s best foodie destinations. Here is a selection of Scotland’s top 10 winter walk

A NEW bar and fine dining restaurant offering dishes with “Glasgow at its very heart” is to open in a historic City Centre building.

Nearly four years on from the day when Ellie Harrison's chips caused a national outcry, the artist is back to tell us more about why she did it – and how she survived that year in Glasgow in the media firing-line

ALASTAIR Stewart’s “resignation” is a good example of how anti-racism has moved from the streets into the boardroom. Anyone involved in anti-racist campaigns in the 1980s will remember the left wing nature of many of these campaigns.

IT is a truth universally acknowledged – at least by its advocates – that all things inexorably advance the cause of independence.

Need a virtual assistant that can work between your PC and mobile device? Cortana can handle your questions and requests on iOS, Android, and Windows 10.

In conjunction with the soft launch, Apple uploaded 10 YouTube videos that explain how consumers can apply for the credit card and use it. Sign up in the iPhone's Wallet app.

Apple's Podcasts app is available on mobile and the desktop, but in macOS Catalina, a new standalone Podcasts app replaces iTunes. Here's how to subscribe, listen, and adjust settings on iOS, iPadOS, iTunes, and Mac.

That killer app only helps you if you can find it on your iPhone when you need it. Productivity expert Jill Duffy tells you how to keep your apps tidy and organized so they're always at your fingertips.

The iPhone offers a highly polished user experience, but iOS does have some quirks that you might find irritating. Our quick tips can help you shut down some of the biggest culprits.

A FROSTY morning and the sun is yet to rise sluggishly over the horizon. Outside, though, already snippets of chirping bird song ring out from the pitch blackness. In my mind’s eye, I imagine little groups huddled high among the branches of the trees. Waiting and watching.

MY heart was beating as if it were trying to escape my body. My mind was racing and hands shaking. All from what would usually be the comfort of the sofa. Was I ready? Ready as I’ll ever be, I told myself. I was standing at the greatest watershed moment of my life and was acutely aware of it. I was about to come out publicly as gay to more or less everyone I knew, all at once, through a post on Facebook.

Tristan Hugh-Jones, oyster farmer

Andy Lowndes, music detective for dementia charity Playlist for Life

Nirmal Purja, mountaineer

Sandra Brydon, director of Home Group Scotland

Not since the Second World War has attention been so firmly focused on food. Before coronavirus we took a steady availability for granted. Now after coronavirus we’re wondering just how secure our food chain really is.

Ryanair has said it expects up to 3,000 jobs to be lost as part of a restructuring of the airline.

IT'S the day after May Day and perhaps you’re feeling you’ve missed out on a good, sweaty Scottish pagan spring ritual of the type done particularly well at Beltane on Edinburgh’s Calton Hill, though not in a year of quarantine. Never fear. There are still ways of channelling the fertility rites of spring, the chief one being, of course, the folk horror classic The Wicker Man. Put on a goat mask, get in touch with your inner Wicker – or even Wicca – and revel in a bit of self-isolation

IT’S not everyone who’s given the chance to design their own tartan so when the opportunity arose, Vixy Rae didn’t need to give it a second thought.

Alan Scott, creative director at Johnstons of Elgin

Beth Pearson, author of The Coorie Home

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This season's colours and cuts mix up the wardrobe-staple trench, says Prudence Wade.

Joblessness now stands at the most since the Great Depression era of the 1930s after the coronavirus pandemic brought the US economy to a standstill.

Australia's central bank has predicted that the country is facing its biggest economic contraction on record.

The budget for Census 2021 is ringfenced and won't be compromised as Treasury seeks funds to fight Covid-19, says Statistician-General Risenga Maluleke.

State adviser says government was sympathetic to the economic difficulties caused by the on-going lockdown but growth in infections in areas such as the Western Cape are biggest risk to the faster reopening of the economy.

The head of the International Monetary Fund said Friday that previous estimates for the world economy to contract by three percent this year were too optimistic.

Once the coronavirus pandemic is over, the tourism industry will probably find that older, more affluent travellers are more hesitant to do so.

The Black Business Council stood by Minister of Tourism Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane and South Africa's Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment policy.

Why and how OM EAST produces Christian comics to reach minority peoples

During Easter, the oldest town in Austria celebrated the life of Jesus and furthered the dream of planting a church.

OM EAST’s latest publication reaches the Nenets tribe in Siberia—a place where few foreigners have ever been.

OM EAST’s publication captures the attention of the Arli in Serbia.

One team member's impressions from the 2015 Salamu Aleikum outreach to Muslim tourists in Zell am See.

Crisis turns into blessing as a local church reaches out to refugees arriving in Europe.

Leon and Santjie Potgieter arrive in Austria to work with a church in Linz and help with church planting.

THE Murray window is closing but Tennis Scotland appear to be diving through it just in time. Failing to adequately capitalise on the ongoing successes of Andy and Jamie has been a long-time frustration of the family, with mum Judy vehement in her criticism of the governing bodies for their inertia.