The Fat Wallet Show with Kristia van Heerden

Podcast: How to make up for lost time

Kristia van HeerdenLatest, The Fat Wallet

Most of us kick our 20-year-old selves for spending all our money making poor decisions in Melville instead of taking full advantage of compounding. The financial independence, retire early (FIRE) movement has given us valuable tools to reach our financial goals despite those late nights in Melville. I discussed that with FIRE-man Patrick McKay here. ...
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ETF: Short-term investment ETFs

Kristia van HeerdenETF Blog, Latest

In a lower interest rate environment getting inflation-beating returns on cash is challenging. If you have a five-year savings goal, this could have a real impact on your returns. A potential solution to this is short-term investing. The most important consideration here is the relationship between time and risk.

Your effective tax rate

De Wet De VilliersLatest, Tax Tuesday

Being in the middle of the 2020 tax filing season and halfway through the 2021 tax year, we wanted to clarify how the SARS tax brackets work and what your effective tax rate is for each. South Africa applies a sliding scale to determine the relevant tax rate. This isn’t the case in some other ...
JSE Direct with Simon Brown

Podcast: Results mania summary

Simon BrownJSE Direct, Latest

Simon Shares Day 153 of lockdown and Covid-19. Pro-active passive management Investec USD SP500 Autocall Upcoming events; 03 September ~ JSE Power Hour: Under the hood of a passive robo advisor Download the audio file here Subscribe to our feed here Sign up for email alerts as a new show goes live Subscribe or review us in iTunes Master ...
JSE Direct with Simon Brown

Podcast: Buy the rumour, sell the fact

Simon BrownJSE Direct, Latest

Simon Shares Day 146 of lockdown and Covid-19, new cases definitely on the decline and hence we're now in level 2. S&P500 closed Tuesday at all-time highs. Sasol (JSE code: SOL) after liking the update the market does not like the results. Truworths (JSE code: TRU) has now written down GBP231million of the GBP256million they ...