Professor Brian Kantor, Chief Economist and Investment Strategist with Investec, shares his thoughts and research on the South African Economy and its Financial Markets.
Barclays Africa Group. Dividend yield: %. Share price (July 21 2017): Date of last dividend: February 23 2017. Most recent dividends: 570c (FY16 final) + 460c (FY16 interim) Barclays Africa Group in the only member of the top 40 among the ten highestranking shares by dividend yield. MTN Group and Nedbank Group are in the .
Anglo American plc is a multinational mining company based in Johannesburg, South Africa and London, United is the world's largest producer of platinum, with around 40% of world output, as well as being a major producer of diamonds, copper, nickel, iron ore and metallurgical and thermal coal.
South Africa is already a tough sell. In a 2016 survey of attractiveness to mining investors, the Fraser Institute, a freemarket thinktank, ranked South Africa 74th of 104 mining jurisdictions, well behind neighbouring Botswana (19th), Namibia (53rd) and many other African countries.