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ETF: Volatility ETFs explained

Kristia van Heerden 28 August 2019ETF Blog, Latest

This year, Absa introduced three new ETFs that aim to capitalise on the relationship between risk and return. (If that sentence scared you to death, hang in there. It will make more sense later in this article.) The products aim to minimise the amount of money investors can lose when markets are scary. They do ...

ETF: Understanding the Ashburton 1200 ETF

Kristia van Heerden 14 August 2019ETF Blog, Latest

This ETF is now owned by FNB and the code is FNBEQF. Once we start investing, most of us are in pursuit of the perfect investment. What we want, of course, is the unicorn that goes to the moon the day after we invested. Luckily, we understand our ability to find that needle in the ...

The Fat Wallet Show with Kristia van Heerden

Podcast: The price-weighted index

Kristia van Heerden 12 August 2019Latest, The Fat Wallet

For two years we’ve had to live with the shame of the Listener Love Index. The wisdom of the crowd is not quite so wise when it comes to stock selection. Let that be a lesson next time a friend offers a hot stock tip. This week we finally replace that horror show with our ...

ETF: Why time matters most

Kristia van Heerden 5 June 2019ETF Blog, Latest

Investment decisions are overwhelming. In this post we are going to talk about the one question that removes a lot of the anxiety around investing: when do I need to take the money out of the market? If your own research lead you to index investing and ETFs, it probably took a while to understand ...

ETF: Understanding the NewFunds ILBI

Kristia van Heerden 10 October 2018ETF Blog, Latest

Effective 1 March 2023, this ETF is now the Satrix ILBI ETF (JSE code: STXIFL) Being able to retire would be impossible if our investments didn't beat inflation over time. The Satrix ILBI ETF (STXIFL) invests in inflation-linked government bonds in an attempt to preserve your buying power. As we explain here, inflation is when ...

IG CFD Conversations: What is a CFD?

Kristia van Heerden 1 October 2018IG CFD, Learn Trading, Webinar and Video

Contracts for difference (CFDs) are trading instruments that allow you to trade the share price instead of a share. In this video, Simon Brown explains what CFDs are and how you can use them.

ETF: How ETFs make money

Kristia van Heerden 18 July 2018ETF Blog, Latest

We all love ETFs but the question we get all the time is how do they make money? This week we dig into how ETFs work and how they make money for us.

Keeping trading boring

Petri Redelinghuys 13 September 2016Latest, TraderPetri

Stock markets, fireworks, rollercoasters, that guy on TV almost frothing at the mouth because of some new-and-all-important-something that just happened (apparently), bungee jumping, and going down a long hill on a skateboard without any knee-pads. These things are all pretty exciting! Often we focus our attention on exciting things and being entertained, or experiencing a ...

Video: Wealth creation 101 (back to basics)

Simon Brown 9 September 2016Learn Investing, Power Hour, Webinar and Video

Wealth creation 101 (back to basics) Wealth creation 101 (back to basics) At its heart wealth creation 101 is easy. We buy assets (shares or ETFs) and hold them long term and watch as they increase in value and pay us while we hold them (dividends). But life and debt gets in the way and ...

Podcast: Bonds, revisited

Kristia van Heerden 1 August 2016Latest, The Fat Wallet

Ten whole episodes, and not a single rock thrown at us! I’m surprised and delighted. This week we kick off with quite a bit of feedback on previous endeavours. Thanks for taking the time to write us. I’m even grateful to George, who came to Magnus’ defence after last week’s episode. There’s enough space on ...