Dividends are probably the easiest thing to understand about investing. This is how business owners make money, after all. When a company they own makes a profit, they take the money. What are shareholders if not part business owners? However, listed companies aren’t required by law to pay dividends*. Whether they share their profits depends ...

So, you went a little overboard with the new ETF listings. Currently your portfolio has a tiny bit of exposure to 30 ETFs. You’ve officially earned your rookie investor badge. Well done! Now that you’re All Grown Up, you are ready to be more strategic with your ETF investments. Should you consolidate your thousands of ...

ETFs are like a fruit salad. When you buy a fruit salad, you get nice variety of complementary fruit for one price in one transaction. It’s great, because you can eat all of your favourite fruit without having to buy a packet of each. Sometimes fruit salads are seasonal. Sometimes they are themed, like a ...

Effective 1 March 2023, this ETF  is now Satrix Value Equity ETF (JSE code: STXVEQ) Fans of Warren Buffett are most likely also fans of value investing. The concept is extremely popular due to its intuitive nature. First, you find a good company whose share price is below what the company is really worth. You ...

An ETF is made up of investments in a number of different companies. Many investors worry about the impact of the performance of a single share on the performance of the ETF. This is especially of concern in an ETF weighted by market capitalisation, where bigger companies have a bigger impact on the price movement ...

With the local ETF space becoming more competitive, investors are starting to benefit from a growing number of niche ETF products. We can already buy ETFs based on the quality of the constituents or the momentum of the share price. Soon we’ll be able to buy companies whose share prices are considered cheap in the ...