Financial Advisor
Investors must understand two rules for successful investment: The difference between price and value Patience usually linked / associated with time horizon The reference to simple is buying low and selling high, which is not that easy and often requires
Sir Franklin Templeton, one of the greatest investors of this century, is quoted as saying the four most expensive words when it comes to investing is “this time is different”. The current level of negative sentiment in SA is resulting
Sometimes I wish I had listened to my Mom and studied medicine. She figured I would make a cute doctor, which I am not sure is reason enough to have become a doctor, but moms usually know best. That said
The following extract was taken from an article by Gerda van der Linde Executive Director Institute of Behavioral Finance: “Capital preservation remains a vital ingredient and a major concern for investment strategy over the short to medium term, not taking
As a 20 year old backpacker hitchhiking through Europe I had planned to run with the Bulls in Pamplona Spain, unfortunately I never made it to Spain. But thinking back as a fearless or stupid youngster this was probably a
The following is a quote from a Bloomberg article titled “China’s Tech Stocks Enter Bear Market as Rally Leaders Punished.” “The correction makes as little sense from a fundamental point of view as the way up,” said Mikio Kumada, a
“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
“It’s like reversing a trailer”, is one of the best analogies for following your intuitive thinking when it comes to investment decisions. You have to “turn” the other way to go in the “direction” you want. This week I want
Establishing if you have enough for retirement is a fairly simple exercise of determining how much income you need to fund your lifestyle and then calculating how much capital is required to provide for this income using an assumed rate
The recent white paper on retirement reform has prompted many financial advisors to try and qualify / quantify their value proposition in order to substantiate their fees. However financial advice is not a simple commodity, which can be compared, priced