Alec Hogg speaks to Stephen van Coller about why he brought the Singularity University founders so far from home.

Alec Hogg Talks with Peter Diamandis, X Prize Foundation and Singularity University by Biznews.com

Alec Hogg speaks to American import Peter Diamandis and Barclays Africa's Eugene Booysen on their upcoming Abundance congress on tech and innovation.

Alec Hogg speaks with Salim Ismail, founding executive director of Singularity University by Biznews.com

Alec Hogg speaks with Telkom Chairman Jabu Mabuza on exponential thinking by Biznews.com

Alec Hogg speaks with Rob Nail, CEO Singularity University by Biznews.com

Alec Hogg speaks with Raymond McCauley, Chair of Biotech at Singularity University by Biznews.com

Ferial says that she is a beneficiary of BEE and Employment equity laws of the country and therefore regards herself as praise singer of transformation. She argues that the economic marginalisation of the youth is the big issue South Africa must confront head on. She shares her views on the difficult relationship between government and the media.

Herman Mashaba is very critical of race based economic transformation policies, saying they will undermine economic growth and polarise society. He calls on government to amend the labour laws and to invest in good quality education. He saying the current approach by government is undermining the job prospects of millions of young black South Africans.

Richard Hirsch was on the money a fortnight back, suggesting Google, at $525, was a great trade (it has risen to $552). In this special podcast he suggests traders switch to alibaba.com - and that longer-term investors go big on the world's most valuable company, Apple. Listen here for his rationale.

Tim Modise chatting to well known broadcaster Pat Pillai about the development of young entrepreneurs in south Africa. He is the CEO of LifeCo Unlimited and recently raised R32 million from the Industrial Development Corporation and Standard Bank to support their programmes.

Environmental, social and corporate governance issues (ESG) are all factors which could have a very real impact on the health of an industry or sector and yet are so often overlooked as hard issues to focus on when doing fundamental investment analysis. At Futuregrowth asset management these tenets form the backbone of their due diligence processes understanding that material risk in these areas needs to be carefully understood and priced into the investment being considered.

Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) is often dismissed as a competitive investment strategy based on poor perceptions around investment returns and efficacy. In reality, this couldn’t be further from the truth. The practise seeks to develop and uplift society by investing to not only better areas of environmental, social and corporate governance as well as protecting human rights but has the dual objective of competitive financial gain. SRI is very different from other development strategies which tend to be charitable (e.g corporate social investing) in nature rather than investing. Angelique Kalam, manager of sustainable investment practices at Futuregrowth Asset Management explains to us how this works in practice.

Tim Modise interviews the CEO of BCX Mr Isaac Mophatlane on the Telkom takeover, BEE and State Owned Enterprises missing the opportunity to grow and develop black business leaders. He says business is a long game and South Africa needs young entrepreneurs who take a long term view of their commitment to business.

From the village of Bochum in Limpopo to captain of Kaizer Chiefs, the biggest football club in Africa, Tefu Mashamaite talks to Tim Modise about his philosophy in life, turning stumbling blocks into building blocks. He is nominated for five football awards and relishes the responsibility of being a role model.

Alec Hogg speaks with Chris Rule of Core Shares by Biznews.com

Interview with the Executive Mayor of Tshwane Kgosientsho Ramokgopa ahead of his State of the City of Tshwane speech on Thursday 14 May. From Transport to Internet Connectivity to Energy, Mayor says Tshwane is reconciling and transforming its economy and landscape.

At 34, Mmusi Maimane, new Leader of the Democratic Alliance, SA's Official Opposition, has time on his side. He also ticks all the right boxes on personal education, is highly articulate and has presence. As importantly in South Africa's young democracy, he is from precisely the right demographic (Tswana father, Xhosa mother) that will appeal to many disaffected by the "Zulu-fication" of the ruling ANC. Maimane also has a clear grasp on what is required to integrate a modern economy into the global arena. But he leads a political force that's struggling to throw off its own racial stereotype. In this in-depth interview, his first since being appointed as the DA's Leader, Maimane talks to Tim Modise about his immediate challenges - and how he intends accelerating his party's growing momentum.

The investigative journalist David Marchant, who uncovered the fraudulent operations of Belvedere, owned by Cobus Kellermann and David Cosgrove, looks back on the case and explains where the billions might have gone. Marchant also explains how Cosgrove was involved with the R360m UK scam CWN - and is still shaking his head at the way financial website Moneyweb backed the wrong horse, attacking him for what it claimed was "flawed research".

South African broadcasting icon Tim Modise talks about his career and insights as background to his newly established partnership with Biznews.com. Tim will conduct interviews with SA's leading players in politics, business and society at large for the new Transformation section of Biznews. In this chat with Alec Hogg, talks about his background, views and explains why the Transformation section will play a critical role in helping South Africans understand the changing world around them.

In the following informative interview, Alec Hogg chats to Richard Hirsch from Standard Bank Online Share Trading about global markets and what you should be looking to invest in as an investor. Currently, Google and Apple are at the top of their game, with many investors still choosing to go with shares in social media companies.

On the night of Sunday March 22nd, Biznews.com was hit by a denial of service attack - the equivalent of a single computer sending thousands of simultaneous visitors to a site built to handle a few hundred at a time. It throttled the site, effectively blocking access for some hours. That the attack co-incided with the publication of a story exposing the alleged Belvedere Ponzi scheme raised suspicions. In this fascinating interview with Kovelin Naidoo, CIO of Internet Solutions, we discover how it happened and why those with an online presence need to be less trusting, more sceptical.

In this special podcast, Gareth Stobie of Coreshares explains what investment experts mean when they talk about alpha and beta - and explains to Alec Hogg why the cost advantages of Smart Beta are only part of the reason why it is becoming such a popular alternative to traditional active managers.

The simple reality about the investing in the share market is that once costs are added, most active managers under-perform the average. So, as Gareth Stobie of Coreshares explains, it makes a lot of sense to follow the path blazed in 1974 by Vanguard's John Bogle - and "buy the market". ETFs offer a low cost, effective way of achieving this.

Far too many South Africans grow old with absolutely no provision for retirement. Our government has become increasingly serious about encouraging people to save for old age by providing tax benefits to those who do save and rather harsh penalties to those who try to access the money early. Oneof these penalties is levied via the taxation of lumpsum benefits taken prematurely from a retirement fund whereby the penalty is actually quite onerous and means that you forfeit taking a very valuable and quite large tax free lumpsum when you do retire. Some of the other unintended consequences of dipping into your retirement funding is also a loss of capital growth and the power of compounding and all those good things that come to patient investors. The bottom line from Denver Keswell, senior legaladvisor at Nedgroup Investments is to try and avoid touching your retirement fund prior to retirement. - Candice Paine