Be a Better Investor
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Be a Better Investor
Moneyweb editor Ryk van Niekerk hosts the weekly 'Be a Better Investor' podcast to give both amateur and established retail investors a peek at how professional investors invest. He chats to professional investors about their experiences in selecting potential investments, as well as how successful...
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From getting a foot in the door to investing in global giants
This idea of 'earning a dividend cheque while you slept' and having something to replace your income became quite appealing to me and a pretty big par...
‘Don’t let something like Steinhoff derail you’ – Ashburton CIO
My philosophy is to invest when markets are dislocated, because companies might face challenges but whole industries won’t disappear forever: Patrice...
Keep it simple, sleep well at night, get (very) good returns
Investment strategies that led to a 1 600% return on Nvidia for Ziyaad Sarang of Revego Fund Managers and Investec.
Does ‘bunking school and jumping off cliffs’ foretell future investing?
Erik Nel of Terebinth Capital shows how you can reach your destiny through avid reading and working towards it.
Could standup comedy lead to investment insights?
Varshan Maharaj from Allan Gray has a lot of intellectual curiosity, sees participating in markets as a ‘contest of ideas’, believes in the basket app...
‘Hedge funds can be a risk-reducer or diversifier, or a return-enhancer’
‘And alternative investments provide access to risk-and-return sources you wouldn't ordinarily get through traditional portfolios’ – Equilibrium CIO K...
'Don't invest in an investment you don't understand or can't value'
Company valuations drew her from the outset, so after a great deal of study, Derinia Mathura found herself a young professional managing the Melville...
When your first investment experience is with unit trusts at age seven …
You might become a portfolio manager at Sanlam Private Wealth – after trying your hand as a casino dealer, English teacher, lecturer and film producer...
Lebo Thubisi started by selling paraffin from a customised bakkie
In investments you learn that you need to make logical decisions and stay away from the emotive things, says the deputy chief investment officer for a...
You can't be too distant from an investment you make'
'Accumulating those small margins is how you become successful and build up a good track record and good return for yourself': Richo Venter, Inn8 Inve...
To start investing, perhaps just go the fund route
Malawi-born Kondi Nkosi progressed from doing ‘business studies’ at school in then Bophuthatswana to being Country Head at Schroders SA today.
For young investors penny stocks may be the way to go
If my first ‘went to four cents, I sold it. When it came back to two cents, I bought it again.’ That' s how then teenager and now CIO at Sasfin Asset...
The markets don't repeat, but they rhyme
‘Don’t just read about investments, read more history; and watch cash flow – if you have growth and you've got that cash flow, when any exogenous even...
40 years in the investment industry hasn’t wearied Wayne McCurrie
It’s 'utter nonsense’ that you as the retail investor mustn't even try your hand at it. It’s not rocket science. But it does offer only one ‘free lunc...
A Dale College graduate who never ‘invested’ in rugby
Saneliswile Tofile’s career progressed from investing with friends to becoming deputy CIO and a portfolio manager at All Weather Capital.
Very few young kids grow up with their own investment portfolio
‘I think in particular when you're looking at young people, they've got to have a good, long time horizon,
and over time will get the ret...
A different approach to investing
‘Ultimately, if you don't have a good grasp or understanding of the risk, you're setting yourself up for failure.’
Invested from age 10, saving his holiday-job earnings
'Being part of farm life, you plant, you wait for the season, and then when the produce comes you get your returns': Fannuel Tigere – Balondolozi Inve...
Don’t start off by going long and short
Try to focus your investing on things that you understand and give yourself a time horizon, advises - Asanda Notshe from Mazi Asset management.
Claire Rentzke: Junior MacGyver to polished investor
The best investment ever for the CIO of Sukha & Associates, has been her RA, which has ‘compounded and compounded and compounded’ untouched over the y...
Presenting a very solid approach many young people would be wise to follow
Investing is ‘not a piece of paper or a light on a screen. You're actually a business owner’: Grant Nader – Benguela Global.
Nolan Wapenaar: Navigating markets, lessons learned, and the pursuit of winners
While the Sunday Times share pages fascinated him at around age 10, today, it is analysis and research that get him out of bed in the mornings.
A different kind of ‘angel’ investor
‘I've stuck with my principle in my stockbroking accounts or investment accounts that whatever is generated in there stays in there’: Craig Pheiffer,...
Half a varsity scholarship paid for his initial investment education
Play to your strengths, figure out the aspects that you are better at, and try to use those to a greater degree than the things that you're weak at –...
From ETF investor to Satrix CEO
It's been 23 years since the first index fund was launched, and Fikile Mbhokota says she's always held the view that it's better to hold a basket of s...
Learning from bygone investment luminaries creates a solid foundation
Get rid of debt and, after your bond is paid, invest and save that amount: Abdul Davids – Camissa Asset Management.
'Start investing early, don't be scared to do the hard work'
Charl de Villiers from Ashburton Investments talks about his 'roundabout journey' from initially studying engineering to becoming an investment profes...
‘Huge gap’ for retail investors to get on JSE – Makwe Masilela
The founder and CIO of Makwe Fund Managers shares his insights into investing and lessons gleaned over the years, remarking that ‘you don’t need to be...
'Steinhoff really shook me'
Nkareng Siwale, MD and founder of RainDance Asset Management, on her journey to becoming an investment professional, and the lessons learned along the...
Jacques Conradie explores the power of emotions in investment choices
‘One simple rule of thumb is to always consider whether you should be doing the exact opposite of what you feel like doing.’
Asief Mohamed's investment journey: The good, the bad, and the best
Two initial personal heavy investment losses failed to deter Aeon founder and CIO from a career in managing other people's money.
'You don't have to go big when you start investing'
Begin by dipping your toes in the market and don't follow the hype or what's trending on social media – Isabella Mnisi, sector head of asset managemen...
'My father taught me my first investment philosophy'
Brian Thomas, director and portfolio manager at Laurium Capital, shares his stock market wisdom.
Investor at age six; now a hedge-fund specialist
‘With long-only you've a blunt hammer in your toolbox...whereas in a hedge fund you've a whole array of tools’: OysterCatcher founder and CEO.
A ‘hold for life’ investment strategy has stood many people in good stead
‘If you want to buy because you think somebody else will be greedier than you, you really have to hope that they're a bigger fool than you are’: Madal...
From learning investing ‘on the job’ to AI fund management
‘You can see a time when the equivalent of ChatGPT takes market dynamics, interprets them and invests your money’ – Hywel George, Old Mutual.
Be a better investor - Podcast
‘Investing for me is much more the understanding of money, and the respect for money. That I think is often where most people get it wrong’: Kagisho M...
'Not everyone has the stomach to be a good investor'
Iain Power, CIO at Truffle Asset Management, on 'learning money' the importance of ignoring the noise, and more.
'Money is like a mistress. If you don't look after it, it'll leave you'
Investment is very much about delayed gratification: STANLIB CEO Derrick Msibi.