Post Budget Breakfast - Professor Brian Kantor

• Date: 10 March
• Time: Reg. & breakfast: 7:00-7:30 | Event 7:30-9:00
• Venue: Boardroom1, Graduate School of Business, UCT, 8 Portswood Rd, Green Point
• RSVP: Online RSVP

The UCT Graduate School of Business

is delighted to present

Post Budget Breakfast Talk

by

Professor Brian Kantor
SA’s Leading Economist

Important Information

• Price: R250-00
• Payments to be made to:

UCT GSB Account

Standard Bank Account nr:  072953004

Branch code: Rondebosch 025009

Reference: Surname – Breakfast with Brian Kantor

• Enquiries: Alumni Office -  alumni@gsb.uct.ac.za or 021-406-1321

• Please note that seating is limited.

• An e-mail will be forwarded to you confirming your booking. (Please remember to check your “Junk Mail” folder)

SPEAKER

Brian Kantor had a long academic career at the University of Cape Town where he served as Lecturer and Professor of Economics and as Dean of the Faculty of Commerce. 

Brian is currently Chief Investment Strategist and Economist, Investec Wealth and Investment.

He was the founding Chairman of the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront (Pty) Ltd, leading that company and the redevelopment of Cape Town’s historic harbour serving between 1988 to 2001. Brian is now Professor Emeritus at UCT. His career includes stints as a Visiting Professor at Carnegie-Mellon and Columbia University in the USA.

A member of the Competition Board (1983- 1989) Advisor to the Margo Commission on Tax Reform in South Africa (1986) and Non-Executive Chairman Acucap Properties Limited (ACP) JSE Listed property Loan Stock Company (ACP).

Received Judges Award, Cape Times - KPMG, Business Personality of the Year - in recognition of his role in the development of the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront for people “who through their vision, energy and commitment are enabling quantum leap change in Cape Town”, November 2006.

Follow Brain Kantor on his blog: http://www.zaeconomist.com/

SOME RECENT ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Money Supply and Economic activity in South Africa, with GDI Barr (2013) To be published, Studies in Economics and Econometerics, University of Stellenbosch.

Study on Inflation and Inflation Expectations in South Africa, with Haakon Kavli, Conference of the Economic Society of South Africa (2011)

Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis (or why Capital Structure is too important to be left to Regulation), with Chris Holdsworth, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance,  (Summer 2010) 22, 3

The Global Forces that drive SA’s Financial Markets from Day to Day, Conference of the Economic Society of South Africa, (2009)

Evaluating Performances at the 2007 Cricket World Cup with G.D.I Barr, and C.G. Holdsworth, South African Statistics Journal (2008) 42, 125-142

The effect of the rand exchange rate on the JSE Top-40 stocks – An analysis for the practitioner, with G.D.I Barr, and C.G. Holdsworth S.Afr.J.Bus.Manage.2007,38(1)

Portfolio Strategies for hedging against Rand weakness with GDI Barr and C Holdsworth, South African Journal of Accounting Research, 2007,21(1)