It would not be unwarranted, for this year’s Hot Stocks edition, to look back in anger at 2025. It’s not that the markets were a particular pain point … far from it. But the overriding question is: how did most investors get it so wrong?
In short, last year investment professionals were wary of a growing bubble in US tech stocks, and fairly optimistic that the gradual overcoming of infrastructural challenges and firmer economic turf locally would prove a boon for South Africa Inc stocks.
South Africa Inc stocks fared well, in pockets, but lagged by a very large margin behind the gains notched up in gold and platinum stocks. Gold and platinum hardly got a mention in our Hot Stocks cover…
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Fun South African Fact: South Africa is the Rainbow Nation.
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