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Investing offshore is easier than you think

Investing offshore is easier than you think

It is becoming easier and more affordable for South Africans to invest in offshore funds. Pieter Koekemoer, head of Personal Investments at Coronation, has some advice for those interested in investing offshore. Many investors saving to retire in...

How do South African women feel about investing?

How do South African women feel about investing?

There is a significant gender confidence gap when it comes to South Africans’ attitudes towards investing. In 2021 Fidelity, a large asset manager in the US, ran a nationwide survey to understand women’s attitudes towards investing and their...

Investment strategies for retirement

Investment strategies for retirement

New actuarial research identifies how different investment strategies may prevent capital erosion in living annuities. Adopting an aggressive investment strategy in retirement seems counterintuitive. But new actuarial modelling shows that most...

Celebrity endorsements, crypto and crashes

Celebrity endorsements, crypto and crashes

Fred Razak, Chief Trading Strategist at CMTrading, warns potential investors to exercise utmost caution when encountering unsolicited cryptocurrency offers, regardless of celebrity endorsements. Amid the 2021 crypto boom, prominent figures such as...

Trying to time the market is a fool’s errand

Trying to time the market is a fool’s errand

Roné Swanepoel, Business Development Manager at Morningstar South Africa, provides compelling evidence that trying to time the market invariably has disastrous results. Let’s start with a thought experiment. If you look back on your investment...

What does great financial advice look like?

What does great financial advice look like?

Rory Brachner, Managing Director at DoshGuide, provides some tips on how you can recognise great financial advice. There are tens of thousands of financial advisors in South Africa, but there is considerable variability in the quality of advice...

Can our fragile currency bounce back?

Can our fragile currency bounce back?

Renier de Bruyn, Head of Asset Allocation at Sanlam Private Wealth discusses the outlook for our fragile currency: whether there's a chance it may return to ‘fair value’ over time, and how this impacts long-term investment decisions. The rand has...

Easy-access funds with high interest

Easy-access funds with high interest

Money market unit trusts and income funds I recently looked into some of the great interest rates that banks are offering on fixed deposits. But what if you don't want to lock your money away for a fixed period of time? Money market unit trusts and...

The upside of high interest rates

The upside of high interest rates

While borrowers are struggling with the ever-increasing interest rates, savers are loving the high interest rates currently on offer. Savers are getting better returns on their bank deposits, and for those people who are prepared to lock their...

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Opening an investment account for your child

Opening an investment account for your child

Opening an investment account for your child is one of the easiest ways to give them a head start in life. There are many low-cost digital investment platforms available with low minimum investment amounts, so you can contribute as little as R50 per month. A few...

Listen: Discover your money fingerprint

Listen: Discover your money fingerprint

Welcome to the final podcast of the Emotions and Money series, where Maya and Paul Nixon, head of Behavioural Finance at Momentum, delve into the concept of the Money Fingerprint. During the COVID-19 period, South African investors destroyed over R650 million in value...

Investing as a side hustle

Investing as a side hustle

Higher interest rates are putting South Africans under significant financial pressure, and many are looking for an income boost. Luke Martins, Financial Planning Coach at Old Mutual Wealth looks at investing as a side hustle. It feels as if the Covid-19 pandemic...

Listen: Are you taking the right risks?

Listen: Are you taking the right risks?

Perceived Risk vs Actual Risk In this podcast, Maya and Paul Nixon, head of Behavioral Finance at Momentum, delve into the subject of perceived risk as it relates to investing, looking at issues such as how much risk you can truly afford to take in order to achieve...

Listen: The link between tears, trust, and investing

Listen: The link between tears, trust, and investing

How your biology affects your financial behaviour In this fourth episode of our "Emotions and Money" series, Maya and Paul Nixon, head of Behavioural Finance at Momentum, discuss the impact of our biology on our financial decision-making, and how we can avoid making...

Listen: Has SARS made it harder to invest offshore?

Listen: Has SARS made it harder to invest offshore?

On 24 April 2023, seemingly out of the blue, SARS updated its "Manage Your Compliance Status” webpage and announced a “new enhanced” Tax Compliance Status (TCS) application form. This new process might make things quite a bit more complicated for those who wish to...

Listen: What makes a successful investor?

Listen: What makes a successful investor?

In the third episode of a six-part podcast series entitled “Emotions and Money”, Maya chats with Paul Nixon, head of behavioural finance at Momentum Investments, about the key behaviours that make a successful investor. They also look at the impact Covid has had on...

Where to stash your short-term savings

Where to stash your short-term savings

When we think about investing we typically think about our long-term goals such as retirement. But what are the options for short-term savings, where you will need the money in less than five years? This could be for a deposit on a home, saving for a holiday, or just...

Listen: What is behaviour tax and how can we avoid it?

Listen: What is behaviour tax and how can we avoid it?

In this first episode of a six-part podcast series entitled “Emotions and Money”, Maya chats with Paul Nixon, head of behavioural finance at Momentum Investments, about “behaviour tax” ‒ the true cost of our poor investment decisions. What is behaviour tax? Research...

Listen: Money moves for newlyweds

Listen: Money moves for newlyweds

In this podcast, Maya and Moroka Modiba, author of Think Yourself Rich, discuss how newlyweds should start managing their finances together, why a household budget is important, and the shared goals that need to be discussed. Moroka also unpacks the various...

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