September celebrates National Wills Week, a reminder to us all about the importance and necessity to create a Last Will and Testament. According to recent statistics, only 30% of South Africans have a will – which means that we have to be talking about this a lot more! We have seen countless movies and TV...
There is a lot of good financial advice out there which goes something like this: ‘you know that money you don’t use every month? Well, take R50,000 and invest it in X now, and you’’ be happy later.’Sound familiar?
It’s Women’s Month, and we’ve been thinking lately about all the ways in which women are wonderful in matters of money.Women as investors don’t get praised often enough - there’s been an unfortunate stereotype in the past that keeps finances in ‘man territory’. Today, we’d like to honour the ladies in our stock markets and on our shareholders’ boards and count the ways in which they rock and the things male investors can learn from them.
If there were a set of commandments for investing, the first commandment may well be this: know your seasons.Just like a surfer or fisherman know the tides of their favourite spots, prudent investors know the market cycles.