Special shares, those high voting shares that give effective control to a select few and which we often don’t know about unless we dig.
ETF: Understanding the MAPPS Growth ETF
The best way to protect your money is by diversifying. This week we show you how the MAPPS Growth ETF takes care of diversification on your behalf.
Money lessons from the past 5 years
The most important lesson I’ve learned since is that money and everything related to money is much simpler than the financial services industry makes it out to be. Especially when it comes to growing it. In this post Njabulo Nsibande reflects on what he has learned over the last 5 years in his investment journey
Debt: I’ve been handed over
What does it mean to be “handed over”? Is this debt counselling? And does this mean I’m “blacklisted”?
Podcast: More Naspers / Prosus shuffling
Naspers and Prosus have announced another deal which will swap Naspers shares for Prosus and hopefully reduce the deep discount to Tencent.
Retire: Both sides of retirement age
Broadly speaking, there are three types of people who walk amongst us. Those who will be happily clocking in for work at 90, those set on early retirement, and the rest of us, working towards retirement at 55 or 65. But what happens when plans change? How does your age affect your access to your retirement products?
Debt: Five habits keeping you in debt
When short-term debt becomes a habit, your future is compromised. Spend some time understanding which behaviours are trapping you in a debt spiral.
Podcast: PGMs flying, but not the miners?
Simon Shares Purple Group* (JSE code: PPE) now has 1million clients across all platform. A wowzer number. What an incredible milestone achieved today. Across all platforms & partners we've reached 1 million registrations. @CapitecBankSA @SATRIX_SA @BidvestBankSA @EasyEquities hard to describe how grateful I am to all you #invstr legends that challenge us to rise each ...
Tax obligations for global citizens
If you can do your job from anywhere in the world: The tax implications of living elsewhere whilst working (remotely) in South Africa
Podcast: How the JSE protects investors
Simon Shares Revego* (JSE code: RVG) was supposed to list today but has delayed their listing. I applied for allocation as I like the business model of renewable energy with guaranteed inflation-linked off-take agreements. They invest into operational renewable asset and are targeting a 8%-10% dividend yield, based off the 1000c listing price. * I ...