The Spire Awards have become a key event in the South African financial markets calendar. BESA has undergone numerous changes over the past two years, having successfully completed its demutualisation and recapitalisation at the time of the 2008 Spire Awards and now, just more than a year later, has become a wholly owned subsidiary of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE).
These are illuminated from an economic, philosophical, sociological or – as heard at the beginning – psychological perspective. I am very grateful to each and every one of this book's truly renowned authors for their enlightening contributions. The end result is, I believe, a unique compendium containing 33 individual perspectives. The contributions to the book are divided into three parts.