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Inside Investing - Biden, Pfizer, Capitec, Valenture and direct listings hit the US markets. Ep 9

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In episode nine of the Inside Investing podcast, an assessment of what the new US president will mean for South African investors; we hear from Gerrie Fourie, CEO of SA banking’s success story called Capitec; get the back story to news that Johannesburg’s famous St Stithians is to partner with SA's online high school disruptor Valenture Institute; hear what the market-boom-causing Pfizer vaccine really means; and understanding the appeal of the direct listings, the new challenger to IPOs which have become the in-thing on the NYSE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
12 Nov 2020 10AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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