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The award-winning Investec Structured Products team brings you the latest iteration of International Titans Basket Ltd. This product offers 100% capital protection and geared upside (with a cap), referencing a basket of underlying global equity indices. Bringing decades of experience and passion to this discussion, Japie Lubbe walks us through exactly how the structure works.

In this episode of Ghost Stories, The Finance Ghost is joined by Siyabulela Nomoyi from Satrix to unpack one of the most important, yet often misunderstood, concepts in investing: benchmarks. From retail portfolios to institutional mandates, we explore why returns only tell half the story and why every investment outcome needs a meaningful point of comparison.

The market celebrated the latest numbers at Shoprite. Grindrod went the other way, with flat HEPS in the latest period. There's a wild move in Impala Platinum's earnings.

The market didn't like the AECI results. Conversely, Lighthouse Properties is doing brilliantly, as are mining duo Merafe and Northam Platinum. Sabvest has announced a bolt-on deal at ITL. Jubilee Metals wants to sell its Large Waste Project. Powerfleet is still loss-making.

With the August / September earnings season behind us, it's helpful to look at share price moves over the past 30 days on the JSE to see how sentiment has shifted. The PGMs have driven the Top40 higher, while insurance has taken a breather.

At the halfway mark in 2025, we've lived through some huge geopolitical shifts. The world's gaze has shifted beyond just the US market. Many investors choose to stick with what they know in times like these. This means homegrown favourites on the JSE. But which stocks have been the big winners thus far this year, and what do they have in common?