One of our relatives recently was scammed out of about R70,000 and we want to warn you about how it worked. By now you should have heard of “Phishing” This is where scammers use email or text messages to trick you into giving them your personal and financial...
How to resist the magnetism of “The Magnificent Seven”
Regular followers of the performance of stocks around the world will undoubtedly have heard of The Magnificent Seven (Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA and Tesla) or The Enormous Eight (add NETFLIX into the mix above). For those who are unfamiliar with...
How to protect your email account from Hackers
How to Protect Your Email Account from Hackers (and it’s really important to do so) This article provides some tips on how to keep your email account safe from hackers. Sadly, hackers and scammers often target peoples' email accounts to gain access to sensitive...
What can Sherlock Holmes teach investors?
What Can Sherlock Holmes Teach Investors? In the Sherlock Holmes novel ‘A Study in Scarlet’ the brilliant detective’s sidekick, Watson, is staggered to discover that Holmes is apparently not aware that the earth revolves around the sun. Watson cannot comprehend how an...
Short-term performance is everything (and the poison we should beware of)
Two years ago, “value investing” was dead. Now it is the obvious approach to adopt in the current environment. What has changed? Short-term performance. There are more captivating rationales but, underlying it all, are shifting performance patterns. These random and...
What We Should Remember About Bear Markets
What We Should Remember About Bear Markets* * There are many definitions of what makes a Bear Market. Simplistically, a bear market can be seen as a prolonged period of price declines in a stock, index, asset class etc… Sometimes this is viewed specifically as a price...