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Podcast: The 2016 market predictions show

Web Admin 14 January 2016JSE Direct, Latest

The 2016 market predictions show We’re back! It’s 2016. Wowzer! This week is our 2016 market predictions show with Marc Ashton, GM at Moneyweb, Keith McLachlan, Small/Midcap fund manager at Alpha Wealth and Just One Lap founder Simon Brown. We did our first predictions show in January 2014 and and the second a year later ...

Happy New Year! Financial goals

Donna Willan 12 January 2016Latest, Money cents

Happy new year, and happy financial planning. It’s that time of year when we make lots of promises and then slowly realise that we can’t live up to them. So my financial promise for the year is that I will set realistic goals, with clear action plans! I started by reflecting back on the financial ...

Resting after the trading battle

Web Admin 13 December 2015Latest, TraderPetri

Arriving at your desk each day is like descending on a trading battle - you must come prepared or you will be slaughtered. You must think up tactics to outwit your opponent and create strategies to claim small victories. You must systematically win ground. You must try to balance offence and defence, for if your ...

Podcast: How to become a fund manager

Simon Brown 26 November 2015JSE Direct, Latest

Simon Shares Astoria (JSE code: ARA) listed yesterday and traded pretty much inline with net asset value (NAV) of USD1.00. I hold and like it very much. But it could be a tough year for the stock if Rand strengthens and US markets slow. we have an interview with Astoria from two weeks ago, find ...

Podcast: Book reviews for investors and traders

Web Admin 19 November 2015JSE Direct, Latest

Simon Shares MTN (JSE code: MTN) continues to fall as the latest rumour says the fine will not be reduced but that it could be paid off in instalments. However MTN has as it there way not issued any SENS on this so the market remains blind with only rumours to speculate on. I consent ...

Rooting out bad trading habits

Web Admin 17 November 2015Latest, TraderPetri

Some people chew their lips or fingers while others eat pens (I am guilty of this one!). Bad habits come in all shapes and sizes and most of the time we are hardly aware of them until someone points them out. In trading though, our bad habits don’t just annoy those around us, but directly ...

Podcast: New Astoria listing from Anchor Capital

Web Admin 12 November 2015JSE Direct, Latest

Simon Shares Lonmin (JSE code: LON) a disaster of a storey. Back in July 2008 Xstrata offered GBP33 a share valuing he company at around R100billion at the time. It was rejected as under valuing the company. Stock has traded over R600 in 2007, now under 200c and a massive (seriously massive) rights issue at ...

5 money tips from my mother

Donna Willan 10 November 2015Latest, Money cents

I’ve been thinking lately about where we get our ideas and values from. For me, a lot comes from my mother, so I thought I would reflect on what I learnt from her about money. Although my mother never had much money – or perhaps precisely because she didn’t have much money – she set ...

Podcast: How to price a share

Web Admin 5 November 2015JSE Direct, Latest

Simon Shares MTN (JSE code: MTN) really is making a mess of a bad situation and I have sold my holding as I can no longer trust management. Capitec (JSE code: CPI) has boomed through R600. Nothing can hold this stock back. We Get Mail Arin My question relates to the previous podcast when you ...

Podcast: Managing current markets

Web Admin 22 October 2015JSE Direct, Latest

Simon Shares The Balwin (JSE code: BWN) listing has been modest – very modest. The stock trades around 1020c after listing at 988c and the first trade at 1100c. Lonmin (JSE code: LON) announces a massive rights issue to deal with their debt maturing in the second quarter of 2016. There was a massive spike ...