How to make 2025 a Financial Success

HOW TO MAKE 2025 A FINANCIAL SUCCESS As we step into 2025, it’s a great time to revisit your objectives and set new financial goals and create a plan to achieve them. In this month’s Financial View we look at some strategies to help you make this year...

Beating your own inflation

BEATING YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE OF INFLATION The latest inflation number in South Africa was at a very low, coming in at 2.8% year-on-year. This is the lowest inflation reading since June 2020 where we were in the grips of the Covid shutdown and constrained supply chains....

The wealth of a Nation – South Africa

THE WEALTH OF A NATION – SOUTH AFRICA In the delivery of this week’s Medium Term Budget Policy Statement the Finance Minister, Mr Enoch Godongwana, made some revisions to the South Africa GDP growth forecasts.  Whilst he mentioned that the National Treasury had...

The power of compounding

THE POWER OF COMPOUNDING Warren Buffett is often recognised as the world’s best investor. His net worth (despite having given large parts of it away to charity) is estimated to be in excess of $140bn. Yet more than 99% of his wealth was generated after the age of 50....

The first step in wealth creation

THE FIRST STEP IN WEALTH CREATION I grew up in a household that didn’t have a lot of conversations about finances.  It was a typical household in that my father was the main bread winner, and my mother would do all the shopping.  They must have spoken between...