Any down cycle can last longer than we would wish, causing great discomfort at times. ……… Not paying an independent financial advisor a reasonable fee has in all probability been a foolhardy and costly mistake. . . . → Read More: Jumping ship to lose
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Many people complain about their bonds and car payments, but often their credit card instalments add up to more than their car payments. . . . → Read More: Christmas bonus, or is it year end bonus? “What you need to do is correctly identify your risk profile, create a portfolio appropriate to your risk profile and let it ride out any volatility markets present.” . . . → Read More: The best protection is a plan A WELL PUT debate to a topical and valid question. What appears to be an obvious and easy decision to make may need a rethink, as suggested here. Note: By virtue of the flux in pension status regulations and pending state adminstered fund tmatters addressed in this article may date and become obsolete. . . . → Read More: SHOULD I MOVE MY RA? The best way to define outperformance when it comes to investing is by way of an example. ……… a fund manager aims to outperform a specific benchmark ……. . . . → Read More: Jargon Buster: Outperformance And other questions you may have on Life Insurance. ……. are calculated using a process called profit testing. This basically involves setting sample premium rates, and projecting the outcome of these rates. . . . → Read More: How are life insurance premiums calculated? 08/12/2010 – Allan Gray – Examining the fund and its’ objectives . . . → Read More: Gray Issue 112 – Stable Fund Comment Coment by Allan Duff NOTICE that even though this short article addresses a single purpose goal, that is higher (spending) income from capital, the methods suggested or pointed out as being available, takes the reader into diversification. Let us never forget diversification is a very usual guard against variations in markets. First . . . → Read More: How to boost your interest income From Mail & Guardian On Line FIONA ZERBST | JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – Nov 10 2010 Taken from Liberty Life’s Blueprint at Breakfast and brought here by Allan Duff A Reit (pronounced “reet”) is the abbreviation for a Real Estate Investment Trust. The Reit structure is becoming an international standard . . . → Read More: Jargon buster: Reits |
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Listed property an underpin for fixed income strategies
Listed property comfortably outperformed bonds, cash and equities on a 12-month view… And over the past nine years (the SA Listed Property index was created in 2003) the asset class has delivered compound average annual returns of some 25%! . . . → Read More: Listed property an underpin for fixed income strategies