When is bad news good news? Bad news is good news when the news is not as bad as you were expecting, and this is often true when investing in the stock market. Over the longer-term the stock market is
When bad news is good news
Wealthy is having enough
According to google abundant wealth means having a ton of cash. Dig and bit further and the meaning is expanded to having an abundant mindset when it comes to wealth. This is best explained by the story of the billionaire
Living Annuity and Death
Never a topic we like to discuss but dying with a living annuity has some important planning considerations, which I will briefly cover in this week’s article. Living annuity contracts allow the retiree to bypass his / her estate on
Investor behaviour risky
“Smart money” is used to describe institutional or professional investors, by default that makes the rest of us the “not so smart money”. What seems to distinguish the “smart” from the “not so smart” is the degree of emotional influence
Investors, beware of ‘Tina’
The tile of this week’s article sounds more like a tropical storm warning than a warning to investors, which may be appropriate given that TINA can be just as devastating on your wealth as a category five hurricane when making
Look for long-term investors
The debate on active vs. passive investment strategies is never ending. If you google active vs. passive there are tens and thousands of articles on the topic. For less informed readers, passive investment strategies refer to tracker or index funds,
Pessimist trumps optimist
Why is it as investors we are most susceptible to a pessimistic viewpoint over the optimistic outcome. Quite simply because we experience the pain of loss twice as much as the pleasure of gains and therefore fear is a stronger
Trade wars lead to MAED
The cold war between Russia and the USA was premised on a critical acronym known as a MAD, which stood for “Mutual Assured Destruction” in reference to the nuclear arsenal of each country and that any hot war between them
Don’t quit now, rather crawl; there will always be an upside
As a child I grew up thinking that I would one day run the Comrades marathon. I read somewhere older athletes were better suited to the long distance, which was the excuse a clung to until the dream faded into
Recency Bias can cost you
Investing in the JSE All Share Index has become a swear word as the herd flee our shores in favour of investing offshore and it is hard to make a case for investing locally given all the bad news and