South African Dictionary of Finance

An essential desk reference for stock brokers, private investors, employees in finance positions, business school students, commerce students, corporate managers or anyone trying to make sense of the financial media. The South African Dictionary of Finance gives guidance of the terminology you will come across in the finance world in plain, understandable English. The rapidly evolving world of finance keeps on generating new products, ideas, concepts and language that anyone seriously interested in money needs to get to grips with. Some of the concepts are peculiar to South Africa but many are international terms. All are essential to master in the areas of finance and banking.

Rudy Wuite Rudy Wuite switched careers from being a physicist in the mining industry to investment banking, first doing an MBA at UCT and then working for ABSA Capital and then Standard Bank. He has worked in both London and Johannesburg. It didn't take Rudy long after the career change to realise that the fast-talking suits in this new world were not saying things that were an intellectual stretch but were simply using words that were not widely understood. He compiled the Financial Dictionary to demystify these words and concepts.