I contributed to a piece about finance tips posted in the Beeld this week. Since the original article was posted in Afrikaans, I decided to translate it and add it to my blog as well. Enjoy (as much as one can enjoy reading about finances)! Avoid short-term debt Getting into debt is the easiest thing …
During the lockdown, most of us have a bit of extra time on our hands. Even if all time you save is the time you would have spent on the road. You can either spend it getting rid of that wine collection you have built up over the last few years, improving your Counter Strike …
Let’s be honest, if I did not make this look like a post about the lockdown no-one would read it. With COVID-19 spreading, we are all losing money somehow. So I decided to focus on the costs that we can control: fees in our Retirement Annuity (RA). So, today I want to help you pick …
Achieving financial freedom is not about retiring, it is about sleeping well at night, knowing you can do anything your heart desires. If you want to take off a month and travel the world, you can. If you like the job you are doing, then you are not under pressure to change jobs to earn …
It is so easy for someone to say that the path to financial freedom requires you to spend as little as possible and then save the rest. Then keep doing this until your investments are 300 times your expenses. You have the best of intentions when you sit down and look at your budget to …
When we retire, we rely on multiple streams of income to keep us afloat. The typical retiree will have a combination of Retirement Annuities (RAs), Tax-Free Savings Accounts (TFSAs) and discretionary savings. All of these will include shares, bonds and cash depending on the accounts you have. Determining how to use these funds in retirement …
When you ask anyone (and I mean anyone) they will tell you that having kids are expensive. Parent 24 puts the cost of raising a child upwards of R90 000 per year. That doesn’t sound far off. I did an article on the cost of sending your kids to school where we saw that in …
There is a lot of software available in the international market that we do not have access to. Today I want to highlight some of the nifty finance apps we do have in South Africa to help us manage our personal finances. Most of these finance apps are free, so test them out for yourself …
On Sunday 10X released their second annual retirement report. I was fortunate enough to spend Monday morning with Steven Nathan and his team discussing some of the shocking stats that Brand Atlas gathered. The two things that stood out for me was the big discrepancy between the savings patterns of men and woman and the …
I made the move from Investec to Capitec in March of this year and this saved me a significant amount of money. You can read more about that in my March finance update. Before making the switch I did a lot of research to find the cheapest bank account because moving banks is a crapload …
