Investments / General

You may not be able to travel – but your money can!

COVID-19 may have restricted global travel and kept South Africans at home, but it did not prevent the impressive performance of local and offshore investments over the past year.

Global economy is experiencing rapid growth, but things are still clearly far from normal

Thousands of learners celebrated Spring Day last week, even though purists will insist that the season only turns officially on the equinox on the 22nd. Mother Nature, of course, doesn’t care two hoots about human timetables. It was still freezing across large parts of the country, Spring Day or not.

Should investors consider happiness rather than GDP?

Diversity is the low hanging fruit in investing

We all get swept up with the marvels of the technical details and marketing campaigns of the investments industry. Money never sleeps, and so news reports are filled with details on the percentage moves in different indices and assets, and we're bombarded by fund managers telling us why their fund is the best.