Reasons for SA SMEs to smile
It’s not always easy to see, but there are unexpected positives in South Africa’s current financial situation. Of all the […]
It’s not always easy to see, but there are unexpected positives in South Africa’s current financial situation. Of all the […]
Retirement (as well as education and the job market) is one of our greatest future-unknowns. We know it will happen…
When it comes to coffee-shop conversations, little is said about the long game in the investment space – it’s often
South Africans (and many others) sometimes suffer from an unbalanced bias when it comes to the United States: we assume
South Africa is an enterprising and entrepreneurial nation… which is why it’s interesting that it can be so tough to
When it comes to building your wealth, it’s not about how much you make, it’s about how you work with
A lot of people misunderstand the term ‘dread disease cover’… and with that name, it’s enough to take the smile out of anyone’s day. But dread disease or CI (critical illness) insurance is a powerful tool to ensure that health emergencies don’t trip up your financial dreams or weigh heavily on your family.
There is a lot of good financial advice out there which goes something like this: ‘you know that money you don’t use every month? Well, take R50,000 and invest it in X now, and you’’ be happy later.’
Sound familiar?
It’s Women’s Month, and we’ve been thinking lately about all the ways in which women are wonderful in matters of money.
Women as investors don’t get praised often enough – there’s been an unfortunate stereotype in the past that keeps finances in ‘man territory’. Today, we’d like to honour the ladies in our stock markets and on our shareholders’ boards and count the ways in which they rock and the things male investors can learn from them.
What you think you can do and what you can do are not the same thing. What would you try with your finances if you couldn’t fail?
When it comes to the things we want in life, most of them are inextricably linked with our finances.