Personal Finance

How Mboweni could raise R10 billion from potentially willing taxpayers. Investors could end up with a much higher fund value, and the Finance Minister with a bit more cash in the kitty.

Fraud: Protect yourself! SAFPS takes aim at fraudsters through its Secure Citizen App.

Raise your game. Some coaching considerations to keep in mind that apply to both your sporting hobbies and your investment plans.

One, two, three: Cut! Major central banks have an interest rate cut on the cards.

The government doesn’t own you! The immoral premise of the NHI.

Times in SA are tough...… and if you fail to plan, you are certainly planning to fail. THE LAST few months have left South Africans reeling. A volatile and unstable economy, concerns around ongoing government corruption, crime at an unsurpassed high, and soaring...

As difficult as it may be for South Africans to conceptualise interest rates below zero, this is the current scenario in some of the world’s largest economies. THE YIELD of a country’s 10-year government bond provides important insight into its economic prospects.

Just over a third of your gross income ends up in SARS’ coffers each month. Don’t believe me? IF YOU are a typical South African employee who happens to be staring disconsolately at the line on your recent payslip marked ‘PAYE’, you must be feeling quite bewildered at...

WHAT CAN we learn from a man who was born before nylon, TV, jet engines, faxes, cordless phones,VFM radio, microwaves, tape recorders, automatic gears, and electric typewriters, let alone computers?

As good as can be expected - 2020 National Budget speech.

What can we learn from the past? - Covid-19.

The economic impact of the COVID-19 outbreak is already being felt – and it’s only going to get worse from here as the economy drastically loses momentum in a 21-day lockdown (that has since been extended for a further two weeks at the time of writing). What does this...

AS THE coronavirus sweeps its way around the globe, the trends established in most countries in terms of taming its spread after lockdown appears similar to that set in China. While it might take somewhat longer for some of those countries that started their control...