Some thoughts on the market's slide - with thanks to the Motley Fool http://www.fool.com "Global jitters" was used in the media 933 times last week to describe why the market was falling, according to Google. Thanks, that's really helpful. It's th
I have written about the merits of using the unit trust versions of the SATRIX Funds previously but a recent example once again highlighted the advantage of the unit trust over the ETF. Apart from the fact that the UT is cheaper than the ETF (the
We bought dollars for a client recently at R12.60/$. It just seemed wrong; the rand is way under-valued and yet in the short to medium term there is absolutely no good news to suggest that it will get stronger any time soon. And yet it probably will.
It was while shaving one morning recently that Occam’s razor came to mind. William of Occam was a 14th century Franciscan Friar who studied logic and is credited as the first person to make known the “law of briefness”. In short he said that when fac
Following another bout of load-shedding I noticed that the clock on the clock-radio in our bedroom was flashing on and off (it needs to be reset each time the power goes off). I was too lazy to reset it (again) and decided to ignore it (maybe my wife
SARS speaking with forked tongue (again) Filing season for the 2015 tax year opens today and SARS have been sending out plenty of emails about this. One of them is titled “BE TAX SMART - Check if you need to submit an income tax return!” which imp
I remember a great radio ad a couple of years ago by one of the unit trust mancos that feautred 2 opera singers. One sang (in a very deep/low voice) “buy, buy, buy, buy” while the other one sang “sell, sell, sell, sell” in a very high voice. The poin
Dear Old Mutual, Liberty, Sanlam, Momentum, Discovery, PPS et al (insert name of company) RE:EVERY SINGLE PART OF MY BEING HAS TO FIGHT THE URGE TO TAKE BUSINESS AWAY FROM YOUR COMPANY. There is a peculiar thing in this industry that if you are
I recently saw an advert for RSA Retail Bonds that was advertising “risk-free” returns. This kind of thing really gets up my nose and in my opinion it smacks of false advertising…RSA Retail Bonds are not the only culprits – just about all of the bank
I just received an invitation to the Discovery Life financial planning summit…on opening the invitation I noticed a few things: The invite is for a financial planning summit The agenda is dominated by sales techniques – sure there are some othe
•Asset Allocation Strategy
•Investment Research and Selection
•Local and Offshore Investing
•Tax Efficient Planning
