Almost time for #CEOSleepOut
As South Africa commemorates the 39th anniversary of the Soweto uprising this Youth Month, it’s an apt time for a focus on youth development. At NMG, through our annual NMG Charity Challenge, we currently support three organisations that focus on youth development: Tembisa Child Welfare, Twilight Children’s Home in Hillbrow and the Elundini Centre for […]
Read more...Andrew Warren live on 702 talk radio #CEOSleepOut
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Read more...Mercado Released [8 June 2015]: OPEC MEETING UPDATE
OPEC kept its current output ceiling at 30 million barrels a day at a meeting in Vienna last Friday. The market expected OPEC’s decision. OPEC took comfort in a 33% rally in crude oil prices since January 2015 and a 56.9% drop in US drilling rigs since January 2015, cuts of billions of dollars in […]
Read more...NMG Personal Wealth’s Jeanne Nel is interviewed on Classicfm
On the 8th of May NMG Personal Wealth hosted more than 120 professional women for breakfast at Bryanston Country Club. The goal: to address the fact the women do not as a rule take care of their own financial planning. According to Jeanne Nel, General Manager at NMG Personal Wealth, “This lack of foresight could […]
Read more...Are we failing in product development?
Last week we emphasised the value of a strong product function and outlined a number of markers to identify high quality, successful product teams. The primary focus of most product teams is in product management – a critically important function. Products require constant tinkering in order to keep up with regulatory and tax changes and […]
Read more...Follow Andrew as he participates in the 702 CEO Sleepout Challenge
I would like to invite you to follow, support and experience my journey leading up to the night of the #CEOSleepOutZA, and on the night itself. I will be blogging, tweeting and sharing my experience on Twitter and LinkedIn. For every retweet or “share” I get from you, NMG will be donating ZAR5 to our […]
Read more...NMG Benefits’s CEO, Andrew Warren Joins 702 Sun International CEO SleepOut
It’s that time of year again when we, as the NMG global family, challenge ourselves to improve the lives of others. This year, I have taken the decision to participate in the 702 Sun International CEO SleepOut taking place on 18 June 2015. Through our participation, we are raising the stakes and hope to use […]
Read more...Mercado Released [1 June 2015]: OPEC CRUDE OIL PRODUCTION
OPEC will meet on June 05, 2015 in Vienna to decide on the group’s production target for the next six months amid a glut that sent prices down about 50% last year. We are expecting OPEC to maintain their production target of 30 million barrels a day. In the last meeting held in November 2014, […]
Read more...What is “best practice” when it comes to product?
We are seeing more and more interest from clients in how best to resource and run product teams – one of our recent Trialogue editions ‘How long does Product development take’ was one of our most popular pieces yet. Clearly our readers, like the Tria team, are true believers in the importance of Product to […]
Read more...Mercado Released [25 May 2015]: SOUTH AFRICAN INTEREST RATES
The Reserve Bank has maintained South Africa’s interest rate at 5.75%, despite the uptick in inflation levels. Inflation rose less-than-expected to 4.5% on a YoY basis for April, whilst analysts had expected a gain of 4.6%. On a MoM basis, inflation climbed by 0.9%, whilst core inflation was slower at 5.6% from 5.7%. The SARB […]
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