Some of your clients are just begging to pay higher taxes
17 February 2022
The buy and sell decisions made by South African investors in response to market upheaval confirms what behavioural finance experts have known for some time: that the market extracts a steep behaviour tax from those who insist on switching in and out of funds in their portfolios. The latest Momentum Investments Sci-fi report suggests that your clients ‘lost’ R90 million in behaviour taxes in a single 12-month period. This ‘loss’ was further assessed based on four investor archetypes that the asset manager tracks.