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Investec Focus Radio SA

Investec Focus Radio South Africa features conversations between leading minds from within Investec and other experts on economic, investment and business topics in addition to issues that go beyond wealth.
Weekly English South Africa Business · Investing
426 Episodes
360 – 380

Progressive insights: Ian Kantor’s lessons in leadership

Investec founder Ian Kantor talks about the establishment on the firm as a small leasing business that has grown into a global bank and wealth manager. He also shares leadership lessons he's learned over 45 years in the business.
11 Aug 2020 33 min

Focus Talk with Alain de Botton

Author and The School of Life founder Alain de Botton discusses what philosophy can teach us about meaning and meritocracy in the post-COVID world of work. He appears in an exclusive Focus Talk with Investec's global head of HR and organisation development, Dr Marc Kahn.
13 Jul 2020 20 min

Prof Karim: Our future depends on Ubuntu

With lockdown fatigue kicking in, epidemiologist Professor Salim Abdool Karim, Chairperson of the Covid-19 ministerial advisory committee, says we have to rely on South Africa’s sense of community to secure the future of the country. He is interviewed by financial journalist Gugulethu Mfuphi for the 9th episode of Investec Wealth…
2 Jul 2020 54 min

Did we just skip a decade of digitisation?

This podcast looks at the accelerating trend towards a digital economy in the time of Covid-19 and the impact on global markets as various traditional industries decline and the established tech firms become stronger. Investec’s Max Richardson is joined by James Anderson, investment manager and partner at Baillie Gifford.
18 Jun 2020 1 hour

How has remote working impacted organisational culture?

How Investec's culture has shifted during the coronavirus, and what it might look like post the pandemic. Marc Kahn, Investec's head of People and Organisation gathers a group to chat frankly about what they're seeing, how they think the culture is adapting and how to ensure remote working is an…
12 May 2020 22 min

Financial and mental resilience

Listen in as Dr. Adrian Saville, Maya Fisher French and Dr David Rosenstein unpack strategies for building financial and mental resilience in uncertain times.
11 May 2020 25 min

SA’s Covid-19 crisis: The jobs toll

Over 1 million people who were gainfully employed a few weeks ago could find themselves without jobs post lockdown. And that’s just the start, as South Africa’s creaking economy grinds to a halt. But all is not lost, says leading labour expert Andrew Levy.
15 Apr 2020 34 min

Covid-19: Insights from the front line

Infectious Disease Epidemiologist Prod David Heymann, blogger Karli Drinkwater and Investec portfolio manager Richard Cardo, share their first hand experiences of the virus.
9 Apr 2020 46 min
360 – 380