What if SA is where Zimbabwe was ±20-25 years ago? With the benefit of hindsight, what would the average Zimbabwean do differently? Would they have stopped investing into their pension funds and bought more foreign currency? Would they have emigrated
There are essentially 2 emotions that drive human behaviour when it comes to money: fear and greed. Both of them can result in investors behaving irrationally and this can result is significant financial losses if we are not careful. For many South
Despite all the money that the banks spend advertising their savings products and all the claims to have no fees or commissions, I would not put a cent into any of their money market or savings products. If you want a money market account then you ne
As we wake to the news of a significant cabinet reshuffle by Mr Zuma and that the rand has lost another 4% on the news, there will be a tendency to panic. Now is not the time for knee-jerk reactions. The market will do that for you. Like a pendulum,
I must admit to feeling quite deflated post the budget speech - kind of feels like we are just getting squeezed even more and that there is little motive to working hard and attempting to save when in reality we are just being taxed more and more and
Alec Hogg recently wrote a piece encouraging people to take full advantage of the tax free savings account before the end of February (http://www.biznews.com/undictated/2016/02/05/go-full-out-for-tax-free-savings-accounts-but-with-two-provisos/)…I di
It seems trite to be talking about investment returns in the context of the “feesmustfall” campaign however, there are people who still need to invest and grow their money and in some ways life goes on. One of the more frequent conversations we ar
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.
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