March will be the start of the fifth year of tax-free investing for South Africans and since its introduction the local market has gone nowhere as we trade back at 2014 levels. Offshore has fared better, helped by a weaker Rand over the period. But for many the tax-free experience hasn’t been all that ...

Tax-free investing for local investors is now almost four years old. We now have over 60 applicable Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) we can invest in and recently we also got the ability to switch providers. Yet local markets have remained stagnated for much of those four years and any positive returns have mostly come in ...

Locally listed property stocks have been under pressure with the index down almost a quarter in the last year due to both corporate issues and subdued growth in the sector. Internationally rising interest rates in the US are also potentially a threat to listed property stocks. Keillen Ndlovu is the head of Listed Property Funds ...

The up-coming completion of the Vodacom YeboYethu BBBEE deal (a ten bagger over the last decade) and the MultiChoice Phuthuma Nathi BBBEE share on an almost 20% dividend yield highlight some huge BBBEE successes for those involved in the various schemes. Craig Gradidge of Gradidge-Mahura Investments has years of experience in the financial services industry ...

Long-term investing mostly revolves around finding a great company and buying at a great price. But there is an important consideration that is seldom considered, when do we sell? Ideally never? True long-term is forever – but is anything really forever? This JSE Power Hour event is presented by Simon Brown, Just One Lap founder, ...

Investing is many things but at its core it is about finding quality companies at good prices that will then proceed to deliver market beating returns. Sounds easy, but how do we identify that elusive quality? Keith McLachlan is a small cap fund manager at AlphaWealth and the DNA of his fund is quality above ...

We kick off the Power Hour series in 2018 with Simon Brown of Just One Lap presenting on all things ETFs and tax-free taking into account his views for local and global markets in 2018. With fifteen new ETFs listed in 2017 and at least another fifteen expected to list in the first three months ...

Our signature yearend JSE Power Hour presented by Just One Lap founder, Simon Brown. Simon looks at what he predicted last year before embarking on his 2018 predictions that include; Steinhoff (JSE code: SNH) Naspers (JSE code: NPN) Bitcoin (BTC) The December ANC elective conference, who'll win and how will this impact our market Junk ...

The market has over the last couple of years seen new shares come to market that has been as seen as disruptors to the norm, should we not have seen them as innovators? Grant Meintjes, head of securities at PSG Wealth discusses some of these shares and what they have done to the market and ...