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ETF: Income ETFs II – Listed Property ETFs

Kristia van HeerdenETF Blog, Latest

The right type of income investment depends on two important considerations. The first is your investment horizon. Your asset allocation will depend on the amount of time you plan on being invested. The closer you get to cashing out your investment, the less volatility you can afford. The second is your tax situation. Income from ...
Benefits of offshore investing

Video: Benefits of offshore investing

Simon BrownPower Hour, Video Invest, Webinar and Video

In times of economic uncertainty, taking investments offshore as a means of diversifying makes sense for a discerning investor. However, it is often believed that going offshore is for the ultra-rich and affluent. There’s also a misconception that offshore investing is all about buying property in London or a summer villa in the south of ...
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ETF: Volatility ETFs explained

Kristia van HeerdenETF 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 ...
JSE Direct with Simon Brown

Podcast: Managed volatility ETFs

Simon BrownJSE Direct, Latest

Sponsored by Index and Structured Solutions, Absa CIB Simon Shares US yield curves have inverted across the range. Shorter term rates are higher then longer-term rates. Now every recession has been proceeded by a yield curve inversion. But not every yield curve inversion has been followed by a recession. So maybe it's warning us or ...
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ETF: Understanding the Ashburton 1200 ETF

Kristia van HeerdenETF 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 ...
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ETF: Understanding the Satrix Emerging Market ETF

Kristia van HeerdenETF Blog, Latest

While South Africa itself is an emerging market, local investors hoping to access other emerging economies have had limited options in the past. These days, we can conveniently access emerging market economies, including the economies of our neighbours, using ETFs. Tip: We discuss the difference between developed and emerging economies in this podcast. 2017 saw the ...
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ETF: All Africa ETF

Kristia van HeerdenETF Blog, Latest

For many years, South Africans hoping to gain access to the African growth story had to rely on indirect investments through companies that do business on the rest of the continent. In 2017 Cloud Atlas changed all that by introducing the AMI Big50 Ex-SA ETF (AMIB50). A year later, the company also introduced a property ...
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ETF: My first investment

Kristia van HeerdenETF Blog, Latest

The most daunting decision a first-time investor has to make is what to buy. Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) can remove a lot of the anxiety around what to invest in. A single ETF investment can give an investor exposure to thousands of shares. If you are new to all of this, understanding ETFs will do a ...
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ETF: Invest in the USA

Kristia van HeerdenETF Blog, Latest

In bygone days, the only way of getting offshore exposure in an investment portfolio was a complicated process involving moving and managing money abroad. While this process is still an option, it normally requires a large chunk of money to be worth the fees. Having assets offshore also complicates estate planning, because you need a ...