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You have negligible control over markets, so control your emotions

You have negligible control over markets, so control your emotions

At the risk of committing career suicide I would like to admit the following.  I have no idea the affect Trump will have on our share market over the next few months……I can hear the response “What! You don’t know.

mw@dmin March 1, 2018March 1, 2018 Investor Behaviour, Market behaviour, Market Drivers Read more

Dammed if you don’t

Dammed if you don’t

With the US stock market now entering its 9th year in a bull market phase, it’s probably a good idea to reflect on some old age wisdom, which is nicely explained in the following quote; Bull markets are born on

mw@dmin January 18, 2018January 18, 2018 Investor Behaviour, Market behaviour, Market Drivers Read more

Market irrationality requires cool heads

Market irrationality requires cool heads

“Be greedy when others are fearful and fearful when others are greedy”  Warren Buffett The big financial institutions have just released their economic forecasts for 2018 and what do you know they are extremely bullish with a consensus view of

mw@dmin December 7, 2017December 7, 2017 Investor Behaviour, Market behaviour, Market Drivers Read more

Volatility provides opportunities

Volatility provides opportunities

You had to feel a little sorry for our newest finance minister when he presented the recent mini-budget.  Stuck between “a rock and a hard place” with no room to manoeuvre.  SA has literally hit its fiscal cliff with the

mw@dmin November 9, 2017November 9, 2017 Market behaviour, Market Drivers, Personal Finances, Tax Read more

Leadership uncertainties

Leadership uncertainties

As investors we are taught not to let macro factors overly influence our investment decisions. There is empirical evidence suggesting that even if you can correctly call a macro event like Brexit it is still impossible to know how the

mw@dmin October 26, 2017October 26, 2017 Investment Risk, Market behaviour, Market Drivers, Uncategorized Read more

Wide portfolio cushions against volatility

Wide portfolio cushions against volatility

The million-dollar question for South African investors is the exchange rate.  The reason for this is that 50% of the JSE’s overall earnings is now generated from overseas. A weaker rand translates into higher earnings and thus higher share valuations.

mw@dmin October 12, 2017October 12, 2017 Market behaviour, Market Drivers, Uncategorized Read more

Don’t be ‘herd’ investor, take a risk and score!

Don’t be ‘herd’ investor, take a risk and score!

A recent Credit Suisse report revealed the best performing stock market since 1900 to be none other than our own ALSI.  Hard to believe considering all the turmoil SA has been through over the last 116 years or maybe that

mw@dmin August 31, 2017August 31, 2017 Investment Risk, Market behaviour, Market Drivers Read more

Be rational, not biased, in financial decisions

Be rational, not biased, in financial decisions

A bias is defined as; “Not logical or reasonable” “…tendencies to think in certain ways that can lead to systematic deviations from a standard of rationality or good judgment”. Recency Bias refers to our expectation for future returns based on

mw@dmin August 10, 2017August 10, 2017 Investor Behaviour, Market behaviour, Market Drivers Read more

There is no “holy grail” secret to making good investments

There is no “holy grail” secret to making good investments

I was invited to spend a full day with arguably South Africa’s top asset manager; you go there with very high expectations hoping to get all the answers.   These are the guys with the enviable track- record of consistently beating

mw@dmin July 6, 2017July 20, 2017 Investment Risk, Investment Strategies, Market behaviour Read more

Zuma-saga: We only hope sanity prevails

Zuma-saga: We only hope sanity prevails

Why all the fuss over the recent cabinet reshuffle and the firing of Pravin Gordhan (PG) as Minister of Finance.   Quite simply the treasury has been “captured”; the next institution under threat would be the Reserve Bank and then the

mw@dmin April 13, 2017July 20, 2017 Investor Behaviour, Market behaviour Read more
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