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Podcast review – Freakonomics

Web Admin 31 October 2014Reviews

I am a huge fan of podcasts* – I download them directly onto my mobile phone and listen as I travel around. The key attraction is that I get to listen to what I want when I want, and there is an almost unlimited number of podcasts to satisfy pretty much every interest. That said, ...

Infographic: Platinum vs. iron ore

Web Admin 29 October 2014Infographic

Platinum and Iron Ore So first I must admit that I shamelessly ripped this image form the Körner Perspective September Newsletter (click on image for full size). But sometimes something just makes you stop and look a second or third time; this chart was one of those moments. Platinum and iron ore essentially correlated over ...

Video: Trading system for a range-bound market

Web Admin 28 October 2014Improve Trading, Webinar and Video

Warren Peacock did a video on Trending vs. Trading markets, how to identify them and how to respond to the different types. In this video Warren presents a trading system for then the market is trading is in a trading range so that once you have identified the type of market that we’re in you ...

Video: Building a core ETF portfolio

Web Admin 23 October 2014Learn Investing, Webinar and Video

Building a Core ETF Portfolio. We love Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and think everybody else should as well. So in this video we look at building a diverse portfolio across different asset classes, geographies and sectors using only locally SA listed ETFs suggesting a number of ETFs to include. The portfolio could be part of ...

Infographic: How bad is the pull-back?

Web Admin 9 October 2014Infographic

We’re finally seeing a sell off on the JSE, but how bad is it? From the all time closing high of 47,080 on 4 July the Top40 is off 9% to close 8 October (a pull back in my book). Year to date we’re still up 3.3%. So in short, not bad at all and ...

Video: 3 Simple processes to better trading profits

Web Admin 1 October 2014Learn Trading, Webinar and Video

Trading is often about the little things that make a massive difference to our profit and loss and this video will look at a few that Simon Brown has picked up over the years. Included will be; Using a single signal for entry and exit, Two step entry process and When to action a stop ...

Infographic: Top40 stocks YTD

Web Admin 1 October 2014Infographic

Year to date (30 September 2014) moves of the Top40 stocks and the individual indices. Top40 +6.6% (DY 2.89%) Indi25 +7.3% (DY 2.32%) Resi10 +3.1% (DY 3.49%) Fini15 +12.1% (DY 3.88%) The anatomy of a financial crisis, 1987 to date | What happened, what changed and what we learntThe anatomy of a financial crisis, 1987 to ...

Review: One up on Wall Street

Web Admin 26 September 2014Reviews

One Up On Wall Street by Peter Lynch One Up On Wall Street by Peter Lynch Subtitled “How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market”, this book was originally published in 1989 and is one of my favourite books of all time about investing. Peter Lynch ran the Fidelity Magellan Fund ...

Website review: 22Seven

Web Admin 14 September 2014Reviews

Started by Christo Davel, 22Seven is a personal financial management tool that launched in 2012. It grabs all your banking details from your various bank accounts and aggregates them into a single, easy to use online system – enabling you to see where you spend you money in one glance. At the beginning of 2013 ...

Video: Is retirement still valid?

Web Admin 4 September 2014Learn Investing, Power Hour, Webinar and Video

Patrick Barker is a portfolio manger at Cannon Asset Managers and will be presenting on Retirement: Still Valid as a Concept or Heading for Extinction? We’re living longer, much longer (the first person to live to 150 is already born and by the time they die the first person to live to 400 would have ...