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South African journalist and editor: Currently Senior Editor at Currencynews.co.za. Views my own ...obvs. Substack at www.timcohen.co.za
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South African retail investors go all-in on SpaceX IPO

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By Tim Cohen 
| Currency News Za
South African institutional investors were cautiously positive about the mammoth SpaceX listing on Friday, but retail investors piled in as if it were not so much an IPO as a once-in-a-generation boarding call for Mars. According to EasyEquities CEO Charles Savage, demand from South African retail investors for Elon Musk’s newly listed space, satellite and AI group was unlike anything the platform had seen before. “It was extraordinary, to be honest,” Savage tells Currency.
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Loose canon💥Now that he is a trillionaire, should Elon Musk give me some money? A modest proposal

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By Tim Cohen 
| timcohen.co.za
Elon Musk is now a trillionaire. Shouldn't he give a little slice of that to me (and you, for that matter)? It is a tempting thought. I have often felt that the world would be a kinder, fairer and more emotionally balanced place if Elon Musk would just hand out some of his money. Not all of it, obviously. I am not unreasonable. Just enough to repair the small but persistent injustice of my not being able to buy a Caribbean island.
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How the PIC’s mediocrity is melting workers’ savings

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By Tim Cohen 
| Currency News Za
The Public Investment Corporation (PIC) – granted the huge responsibility of protecting the savings of nearly 1.3-million civil servants and more than 565,000 pensioners and other beneficiaries such as widows and orphans – treats that duty with an investment dysfunction that suggests grotesque incompetence. In fact, high school students who take part in the annual JSE Investment Challenge could and would have done better.
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