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ETF: Understanding the S&P Givi Financial 15 ETF

Kristia van HeerdenETF Blog, Latest

…ETF issuer Absa Capital Issue date 15 June 2009 TER* 0.18% ETF benchmark S&P GIVI SA Financials Index Tax-free savings account Investment allowed ETF major holdings Download the full list here: GIVI SA Fini 15 ETF  Market cap* R39.5m Performance 1 year -12.7% 3 year -20.4% 5 year -36.6% 10 year +42.3% Dividend yield 3.5%…

Managing the dreaded drawdown

Podcast: Managing the dreaded drawdown

Simon BrownJSE Direct, Latest

…uninspiring. Like for like sales after inflation went down as they continue to lose market share and operating margins remains very weak at 1.6%. Calgro M3* (JSE code: CGR) not bad is we strip out the funnies. Memorial parks coming along and Western Cape drought hurting a bit as is the weak economy. I reduced…

Books for traders & investors

Podcast: Books for investors and traders

Simon BrownJSE Direct, Latest

Books for traders & investors Books Trading Trading in the Zone – Mark Douglas (detailed review) Trend Following – Michael Covel (detail review) Reminiscences of a Stock Operator – Edwin Lefevre Investing One up on Wall Street – Peter Lynch (detailed review) Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits – Phil Fisher (detailed review) Effective Investor –…

The Fat Wallet Show with Kristia van Heerden

Bonus podcast: Property dilemma

Kristia van HeerdenLatest, The Fat Wallet

Compounding Index-tracking products In this bonus episode, we help one of our listeners solve a property dilemma by applying these parameters to his specific situation. Follow our line of thinking and see if you agree. Kristia Listen / download here. Subscribe to our RSS feed here. Subscribe or rate us in iTunes. Sign up here to receive an email…

The Fat Wallet Show with Kristia van Heerden

Podcast: What is “good” performance?

Kristia van HeerdenLatest, The Fat Wallet

…performing best. Simon and I did a quick comparison and I was happy to take the lead with just shy of R113 000 on Thursday, 26 October. I’m feeling strong. Shots fired. In case you missed it, we released a bet-you-didn’t-see-this-coming bonus episode last Friday. We help a listener make a difficult financial choice using…

How important is a trading system?

Podcast: How important is a trading system?

Simon BrownJSE Direct, Latest

…in how a set of results should look if the company really is firing on all cylinders. Revenue +10.9%, HEPS +14.5% and the dividend +18.4%. The Traders Life three part series with IG is online. Up coming events; High probability derivative trading Position your portfolio for 2018 * I hold ungeared positions. How important is your…

Too big to work

Podcast: Too big to work?

Simon BrownJSE Direct, Latest

…next 3 years while they try turn the low cost idea into profits. Steinhoff (JSE code SNH) is back in the bad news on reports that it hid US1billion worth of related party deals. This company has a lot of smoke around for an innocent company. Sasfin (JSE code: SFN) has a price-to-book (PB) of…

Charting the future

Video: Charting the future

Simon BrownImprove Trading, Power Hour, Webinar and Video

Garth MacKenzie of Traders Corner presents this JSE Power Hour and has a look at how local and global markets have been preforming. He also makes some predictions for the Rand and Top40 as well as ten locally listed stocks that are looking strong right now. Download the PDF here. View JSE Power Hour series…

Podcast: When it’s time to panic

Simon BrownJSE Direct, Latest

…simple don’t know how bad things will be nor if previous results are sound. Major management failure both to communicate to market and to manage the company. Spar (JSE code: SPP) results show revenue up 5.4% while operating costs increased 19.2%. Not good at all. Switzerland seems to be coming right, Ireland not and South…

The Fat Wallet Show with Kristia van Heerden

Podcast: Retirement revisited

Kristia van HeerdenLatest, The Fat Wallet

…Kris P.S. Our survey results are in. Check them out here. Listen / download here. Subscribe to our RSS feed here. Subscribe or rate us in iTunes. Sign up here to receive an email every time a new show goes live. Meet the Just One Lap team at these free live events Click here to meet the Just One…