Mind Your Money with Carla Venter (Investing in infrastructure)

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Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana wants a massive slice of South Africa’s pension pool over a trillion Rands over the medium term to fix our broken rail, road, and water grids. Now, before you panic: nobody is raiding your bank account tonight, this is an invitation to your fund manager to invest. But it means YOUR future wealth is being tied directly to the future of South African infrastructure and if it goes right, your pension grows and the economy recovers. If it goes wrong, your future gets hit by cost overruns and delays. Joining us to cut through the jargon is financial expert Carla Venter.
18 Jun English South Africa Society & Culture · Music Interviews

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