New short-term insurer Naked challenges the insurance status quo.
Finding balance in a world of extremes
Many investors are concerned about the current global and local investment environment. So how do we go about building a solution...
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There is no excuse not to be insured
With third-party insurance available for only R38 per month, not being insured could be the most expensive decision you ever make.
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When your emergency is not paid by your medical scheme
An often-misunderstood fact about hospital plans is that they don’t necessarily cover visits to the emergency or casualty rooms.
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A financial survival guide to divorce
Facing the breakdown of your marriage can be extremely painful emotionally, but with the right knowledge and planning, it needn’t...
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This site is a collection of articles written by finance journalist Maya Fisher-French as well as other contributors. The aim of Maya on Money is to help you with those day-to-day money decisions related to South African finance matters. Articles cover all those areas that you need in order to manage your money effectively such as budgeting, saving, investing, banking and insurance. Feel free to engage with us and post your questions on the Forum.
South African investors are nervous ‒ and for good reason.
The biggest risk for the self-employed is being unable to work due to illness or trauma.
Increasingly wealth managers are being asked by their high-net-worth clients about the costs of tertiary education overseas, due to a perceived decline in educational standards in South Africa.
A reminder that the tax season deadlines have been brought forward by a month this year so your tax return is due on efiling by 31 October.
Our paths to financial freedom are laid with booby-traps of our own making. Only once we understand how we relate to money, can we achieve true financial freedom.
In the current economic climate, many South Africans need to borrow money out of desperation just to help them survive. It is here where scam artists and unscrupulous marketers prey on the public,
Investment experts have often sceptically dismissed cryptocurrencies as excessively volatile. Technologists have described them as revolutionary. Who is correct?
An emergency fund is what will stop you going back into debt.
The current draft Tax Administration Laws Amendment Bill, 2018, contains some changes relating to provisional tax that taxpayers should be aware of.