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STANLIB Global Select Fund responds to AI and tariff developments

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In this podcast, Wehmeyer Ferreira, COO of STANLIB’s Outcomes Franchises, chats to Amit Parmar, investment specialist in J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s International Equity Group, about how the Global Select Fund has adjusted its positioning. They also discuss some of the opportunities the teams have identified amid the upheavals.

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9 May English South Africa Investing · Business News

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