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Simon Brown

Johannesburg

Columnist at Finweek

Host at Moneyweb

talker, investor, trader, photographer, writer, chocolate eater, wine drinker I spend time on @JustOneLap @BusinessDayTV @Moneyweb @FinancialMail

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Articles

  • What does the spike in active demand tell us about the office market?

    3 days ago | costar.com | Simon Brown

    Watch the video to learn how you can access industry leading CRE news and the data analytics you need to drive success. This news story is available exclusively to CoStar subscribers.

  • Top40 at all-time highs. Plenty of ETFs for that

    1 week ago | justonelap.com | Simon Brown

    Local investors in the Top40 index are loving the repeated new all-time highs we’ve been seeing. But it wasn’t always all smiles for the index. After the global financial crisis in 2008/09 the index managed a great couple of years almost tripling between 2009 and 2014. But then it went sideways at around 45,000 points for some three years. It then took a step higher to around 50,000 points and got stuck again.

  • SIMON BROWN: Aspen needs a new prescription

    1 week ago | businesslive.co.za | Simon Brown

    50 years ago this week, one of apartheid’s most prominent Afrikaner opponents died — a prisoner in the town of his birth

  • SIMON BROWN: Look beyond the face value of local bonds

    2 weeks ago | businesslive.co.za | Simon Brown

    I like to revisit bonds and how they work every so often in this column because they’re different from normal share investing. With a share, you simply buy it — which gives you ownership in the business and future profits — hope it goes higher, and collect any dividends the board decides to declare. We are technically trading these shares in the secondary market (locally the JSE), and if there are more buyers than sellers, the price goes higher...

  • Student creator brings her design from the screen to life

    2 weeks ago | tropnews.com | Simon Brown

    Icie Wallace displays her products for people to see as they walk around in Downtown Troy. Student Made is an organization that helps students with small businesses promote and sell their products. The Student Made Store is a place where many student's creations stand on display. With 20 active creators involved with Student Made, shoppers can buy items ranging from clothing andcrochet work to art pieces.

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Simon Brown @SimonPB
13 May 25

Lewis: After a strong update, it’s still cheap and Boxer results with @alexduys Also results with CEOs of Calgro M3 and Redefine https://t.co/ldmwDMuWmY

Simon Brown
Simon Brown @SimonPB
13 May 25

RT @Moneyweb: [POLL] @SimonPB is chatting with @alexduys about the first set of results from a listed Boxer. What did you make of the num…

Simon Brown
Simon Brown @SimonPB
12 May 25

RT @Moneyweb: [PODCAST] Trade tensions are cooling demand and pricing for dissolving wood pulp, says @SappiGroup CEO #SteveBinnie listen to…