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Rational Radio: MJ picks SA's post-lockdown winning, losing sectors; Sygnia's big stake in Oxford's Covid-19 vaccine

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In this episode of Rational Radio, Alec Hogg apart from the stream of questions from on-attendance Biznews Premium subscribers, regulars David Shapiro and GG Alcock have plenty to chew on as former FNB boss turned startup investor Michael Jordaan picks the economy's post-Covid-19 winning and losing sectors; and Sygnia founder Magda Wierzycka explains how her company has ended up as the biggest shareholder in the fund which owns a chunk of Oxford University's coronavirus vaccine - currently undergoing human trials and widely tipped to be the first to deliver an antidote to the virus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
4 May 2020 6AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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