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The Fat Wallet Show with Kristia van Heerden

Podcast: Are my investments making me poor?

Kristia van Heerden 10 October 2016Latest, The Fat Wallet

When I finally paid off my debt three years ago, I was in the perfect position to start building wealth. It took two stark years to get out of a very dark place of my own making. No salon visits, no new clothes and a helluva lot of peanut butter later had me looking a ...

Podcast: Still hating on active fees

Simon Brown 6 October 2016Latest, WorldWide Markets

Simon Shares With SABMiller exiting the JSE new weightings in the indices with Naspers (JSE code: NPN) now 19% in the Top40 and 31% in the Indi25. Rating downgrade to junk, still on the cards? Deutsche Bank and the deal on their ETFs and ETNs. Live followup reversal patterns video is online. Two events next ...

ETF: Deutsche Bank ETF panic

Kristia van Heerden 5 October 2016ETF Blog, Latest

South African ETF investors looking for offshore exposure have had a convenient vehicle in the Deutsche Bank x-tracker ETF products. We have been supporters of these products, both through personal investments in x-tracker ETFs and by recommending the ETFs to our users. Last week the global financial system was rocked by speculation that the German ...

Retirement blues again

Donna Willan 4 October 2016Latest, Money cents

By coincidence, it’s been one year since I wrote my last blog on retirement after having written my third Money Cents column on retirement as well. It seems that I panic around this time of year. Could it be that my birthday is soon and it reminds me that I am getting old? So yes, I ...

Podcast: Warranty worry

Kristia van Heerden 3 October 2016Latest, The Fat Wallet

I’m a big believer in having an emergency fund that will cover my expenses for at least three months. I don’t want too much cash sitting around doing nothing, but I also want to avoid cashing out investments to cover emergencies. My emergency fund creates an interesting dynamic in my personal finances. Because I have ...

Momentum portfolio update end September 2016

Simon Brown 2 October 2016Latest, Learn Trading, Portfolio update

Momentum portfolio update end September 2016 Momentum Portfolio update Update for the period ending 30 September 2016. Find the portfolio details, methodology and previous returns here. For the seven months ending September (remember we enter the new portfolio on 1 March) the return is -0.1% including all costs and dividends receive. Below is a screenshot of ...

Podcast: Can we trust Capitec?

Simon Brown 29 September 2016Latest, WorldWide Markets

Simon Shares Thursday 29 September is the last day for SABMiller (JSE code: SAB). Shareholders approved the take over and it will be suspended and delisted from close on 29th. It has been listed on the JSE since 1897 Index changes; IMP into Top40, AVI into Indi25 & FFA/B into Findi. There is a chart ...

Risk management and the rules involved

Petri Redelinghuys 27 September 2016Latest, TraderPetri

Risk management is probably the most important part of trading. I’m sure you’ve often heard that a trader can get half their trades wrong and still make money if they have adequate risk management rules in place. This is actually, believe it or not, very true. Trading is about keeping your losses small and riding ...

Podcast: How to be wrong, or contract vs prepaid

Kristia van Heerden 26 September 2016Latest, The Fat Wallet

This podcast forces me to do an annoying amount of personal growth. This week I had to work out what I disliked more: being wrong or being irrational. My early 20s was a haze of red wine and shopping on credit. In three short years I managed to rack up debt ten times my monthly ...

Podcast: Reviewing small cap results

Simon Brown 22 September 2016Latest, WorldWide Markets

Reviewing small cap results with Keith McLachlan Simon Shares Wells Fargo is the sort of stock that if I owned it, I would sell it as management totally failed and refuse to accept any blame. There is a theory that equal weight ETFs have higher costs because they have to rebalance every stock every quarter. But ...