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What is the name of your company or organization?: Richard Borrett & Associates cc

What is your position in your company or organization?: Richard Borrett & Associates cc - Sole Member

What does your company of organization do?: Richard Borrett & Associates CC is a completely independent Life & Short-term brokerage formed in 1990.

We deal with long-term Life, Retirement & Investment products as well as Household, Motor Vehicle, Commercial Short-term and Income Protection.

In which African countries does your company or organisation operate?: South Africa and on:
http://www.twitter.com/borrett001
http://www.linkedin.com
http://johannesburgbc.ning.com

What is your website?: http://www.borrett.co.za

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Run for your lives!

. . . the future will be a total disaster, with a collapse of our capitalistic system as we know it today, wars, massive government debt defaults and the impoverishment of large segments of Western society. Cut & paste this link for the entire ar...

October 5

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Interest Rate Cut

There was good news today for South African consumers and the economy in general, as the South African Reserve Bank Monetary Policy Committee announced a decrease in interest rates of 0.5 basis points.

August 13

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Debate on Healthcare

July 13

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RICA rocks

July 10

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July 8

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Where should the interest rate be?

Taylor's Rule* According to Taylor’s Rule, the prime interest rate should be: “neutral” Real prime rate (avg 09/89 – 07/95; 1999 – 2007) = 5.5% Expected CPI inflation: 4Q/2010 = 5.0% 0,5 x (currant CPI[7.9%] – CPI ‘target’[4.5%]) = 1.7% 0.5 x ...

June 26

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Winter gale storms to hit the Western Cape - Tips to flood-proof your home during the rainy season

Local weather reports indicate gale force winds and torrential downpours throughout the Western Cape over the next few days with these adverse weather conditions expected to move further afield into the Eastern Cape. It is expected that the disru...

June 25

Michael Gardiner commented on Richard Borrett's blog post 'Can they use "pirate" and second hand parts in the repair of motor vehicles?'

Thank you Richard for this most useful and valuable information. Michael.

June 20

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Run for your lives!

Posted on October 5, 2009 at 11:30am —

Interest Rate Cut

Posted on August 13, 2009 at 7:18pm —

Debate on Healthcare

Don't miss the broadcast of The Big Debate on Health Care.
A discussion of the Proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme, featuring the Minister of Health Aaron Motsoaledi, Discovery Healthcare CEO Adrian Gore and others.

The main broadcast dates and times:

eNews channel: Weds 15th July at 9pm [DSTV Channel 403]
eNews channel: Fri 17th July at 9pm [DSTV Channel 403]
eTV: Sat 18th July at 1pm [eTV Free-to-air channel]

Posted on July 13, 2009 at 3:38pm —

RICA rocks

You may recall the fun we had when PAIA (in the SKYA, as we termed it) was launched - the clumsily named Promotion of Access to Information Act which, after five deadline shifts, was implemented in such a watered-down version that it serves very little or no purpose. Now RICA has hit our shores and is likely to have, at best, only irritation value.
The Regulation of Interception of Communication-Related Information Act (Rica), which came into force last week, have been slammed by experts, who ar… Continue

Posted on July 10, 2009 at 9:47am —

Momentous law set to change SA business forever

It’s official!
The way that business is done in SA will alter drastically from October, 2010 when the Consumer Protection Act kicks in.
For business owners it is the most far-reaching law since the Labour Relations Act.

Go to:
http://www.standardbank.co.za/site/business_banking/espresso/Clickthroughsissue8/MainNews_01_pg1.html

Posted on July 8, 2009 at 1:46pm —

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At 9:06am on April 2, 2009, Paul du Plessis said…: Hi Richard
Much appreciated.
I will keep giving it a go as I have learnt over the last 18 years in this industry persistence pays off in the end.
Thanks for this oppurtunity.
Regards
Paul