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...

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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
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
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?
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
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?
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?
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
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?
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
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...