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Russel Silberston is a Strategist at Ninety One in London

He’s one of the world’s most experienced resource producers’ executives, known best in SA as former CFO and CEO of Anglogold Ashanti.

Venkat opens up with his views on commodity sectors by referencing the macroeconomic situation and the supply/demand trends.

And of course his unique insight into the producers’ behaviour.

Jaco is head of Advisor Services in South Africa at Ninety One. Prior to moving into this role, Jaco was sales director for the South African Advisor team and head of distribution for Ninety One Investment Platform.

Having previously worked at Sanlam Group, Jaco occupied various positions which included heading up the product development for the Sanlam platform business, Glacier from 2000 to 2003, and heading up the business development and distribution team from 2003 to 2009.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries, and holds a B.Sc (Hons) degree from the University of Stellenbosch.

A seasoned and successful asset manager shares, at length, what he thinks he;s learnt abouth stock picking.

Midday Markets with Lindsay Williams

Kevin Brandt
JOHANNESBURG - Renowned South African economist, Mike Schüssler, has passed away.

The financial expert, who lost his battle with cancer, has been remembered as "the people's economist".

“He had insight in economics and the reason why is because he had insight into the psyche of humans. He understood people and because of his knowledge of people, he would get a hunch about why people are doing something and he would try to find the data to support that and, quite often, he would actually find it,” said his friend and fellow economist, Dawie Roodt.

Road Freight Association CEO and colleague, Gavin Kelly, said that Schüssler's passing was a huge blow to the industry.

“We had a long relationship with Mike. He was from Ecomomist.co.za. Very sharp and intuitive in terms of economics, forecasting and looking at what is happening in the country,” Kelly said.