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Podcast: Sell like a pro

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Simon Shares Up coming events; 11 April ~ JSE Power Hour: Know your fees with Nerina Visser Selling like a pro We tend to focus on the buying, enteries and selling at profit. But what of selling at a loss? Far to often i hear people state it has fallen too much and so there's ...
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Podcast: Avoiding the next Steinhoff

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Simon Shares No Brexit deal with 8 days to go. A mess of epic proportions. Load shedding is in full force (well only force 4 with more stages to go) and it's bad. Seems we can expect a 'stable' electrical grid sometime towards the end of the year, albeit stable may still include stage 1 ...
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Podcast: Investment lessons from Boeing

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Simon Shares Group5 (JSE code: GRF) goes into business rescue with "a slim chance for any realisation of value.". It seems the construction of a power station in Ghana was the final nail. Remember the +R1billion they were offered to their Eastern European toll operations? But in the end a lack of liquidity killed them. ...
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Podcast: MultiChoice lists, now what?

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Simon Shares Greenest start to a year since the 1960's, Top40 is 6.9% up year-to-date. MultiChoice (JSE code: MCG) has unbundled out of Naspers (JSE code: NPN) with MultiChoice closing at R106 and Naspers off R125 on the back of Tencent weakness over night in Hong Kong. So no value unlock and with fair values ...
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Podcast: Equal weight needs your vote to be SMART

Simon BrownLatest, WorldWide Markets

Making the CSEW40 SMART The CoreShares Equal Weight Top40 ETF (JSE code: CSEW40) has long been a favourite of mine, but now CoreShares want to change the ETF to a multi factor ETF under the code SMART. Those factors are; Value (portfolios of cheap shares outperform portfolios of expensive shares) Momentum (portfolios of recent share ...
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Podcast: Managing managed accounts

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Simon Shares Eskom is "technically insolvent" and load shedding is back, why are we surprised? This was promised us when we had some in December. Bottom line it's a mess, costly to the economy and fixing Eskom is critical and very difficult. Watch the budget next week. EOH woes continue as the stock lost over ...
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Podcast: Where’s the liquidity?

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Simon Shares A green January with financials the winners but 2019 is going to be a wild ride, especially in the lead up to the elections expected in May. Tax-free year end is end February, don't leave it for the last minute if you want money in this tax year ending 28 February. Budget on ...
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Podcast: Where’s Safcoin?

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Simon Shares Retailers, woe is worrid. Aside from Foschini (JSE code; TFG) and Lewis (JSE code: LEW) they have ranged from horrid to truly astoundingly horrid. Shoprite* (JSE code: SHP) has also put out a trading update to follow on from the so-so sales update and aside from some internal issues and Angolan hyperinflation the ...
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Podcast: Know your S12J

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Simon Shares The rule of 72 (how long until your money doubles in value). Upcoming events Tax-free investing review, who ate the returns? Know your S12J Simon chats with Dino Zuccollo & Jonti Osher from Westbrooke Alternative Asset Management to really get to understand S12J. The rules, risks, benefits, what to look out for and more. ...
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Podcast: 2019 predictions show

Simon BrownLatest, WorldWide Markets

Simon Shares Learn to love a lazy market Upcoming events Tax-free investing review, who ate the returns? 2019 predictions show Every year Marc Ashton, Keith McLachlan and Simon Brown do a predictions show. Three wild and wooly predictions for the markets followed by a call on the Top40 and ZAR. Each year starts with a review of the ...