The Fat Wallet Show with Kristia van Heerden

Mini podcast: Vitality-funded flights

Kristia van HeerdenLatest, The Fat Wallet

…partner stores are very common stores that we all spend at anyway.         Dis-chem/Clicks         PicknPay/PicknPay liquor (wine for Simon)         Shell/BP         Computicket, Takealot, Ticketpro        Nando’s         Exclusive Books         iStore/Incredible Connection         Hirsch’s/Coricraft         BabiesRus, ToysRus, Hamleys, Reggies         Golfers Club/Pro Shop         Vida e Cafe (I know you love coffee*) The best thing about Discovery miles is they can easily…

Refusing to learn from Steinhoff

Podcast: Refusing to learn from Steinhoff

Simon BrownJSE Direct, Latest

Refusing to learn from Steinhoff Simon Shares EOH (JSE code: EOH), so the collapse was because of directors’ margin calls that forced them to sell? This is an epic disaster, if it was my board I would fire them. A share price collapse has real consequences, especially for a company like EOH that uses their…

JSE Direct with Simon Brown

Podcast: The 2018 market predictions show

Simon BrownJSE Direct, Latest

…the Top40 and ZAR/US$ for the year. You can find the 2017 edition here and the 2018 edition is below. You’ll also find the full Position your portfolio for 2018 here. Download the audio file here Subscriber to our feed here Sign up for email alerts as a new show goes live Subscribe or review us in iTunes. JSE…

Podcast: Investor new year resolutions

Simon BrownJSE Direct, Latest

…is not the best management and be very careful about what qualifies as best management (think Steinhoff). Careful of complexity (again Steinhoff). Miners and other cyclical stocks are never long term investments. ETFs are best and easiest way to create wealth, always have a core of at least 50% ETFs in your portfolio. Your first…

JSE Direct with Simon Brown

Podcast: Viceroy charge Capitec

Simon BrownJSE Direct, Latest

…thoughts to ponder. What if Viceroy had published their Steinhoff report before Steinhoff admitted to their fraud, would we have believed them? Simple answer is no and we would have looked stupid when the company admitted the fraud. A fund manager does their research in a company, decides it’s a great sock. They buy it…

JSE Direct with Simon Brown

Podcast: Getting to grips with S12J

Simon BrownJSE Direct, Latest

…tax year Up-coming events JSE Power Hour: Kick off 2018 with ETFs and tax-free investing * I hold ungeared positions. Section 12 J (S12J) Introduced in 2009 this enables a tax payer to invest into a startup (via the S12J fund, Section 12J Venture Capital Companies (VCC)) and claim it as a deduction on their…

ETF collapsing

Podcast: Avoiding the big losers

Simon BrownJSE Direct, Latest

…2018 with ETFs and tax-free investing Avoid the big losers or risk your portfolio A -60% return requires a +150% to beak even. A -80% return requires +400% to break even. Think about that. Saving that last 20% on the downside is worth a 250% smaller return on the upside. — Ari Paul (@AriDavidPaul) February…

The Fat Wallet Show with Kristia van Heerden

Podcast: The low income episode

Kristia van HeerdenLatest, The Fat Wallet

…that there will always be someone who is surviving on waaaay less and not complaining. But my key takeaway is that on a small paycheque education is your biggest investment and then pay your future self first. The rest is survival as we know it. Kristia Listen / download here. Subscribe to our RSS feed here. Subscribe…