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Money mistakes made by couples
Forget sex and the mother-in-law. When it comes to the real reasons couples fight, money is undoubtedly the biggest relationship wrecker of all. Let’s face it – managing our own money is hard enough....
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Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor
One of the greatest challenges we face as parents of young kids is guiding our children vocationally. Having attended a traditional girls-only school in the mid-eighties, our career guidance consisted...
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No rewards for bad behaviour
Whilst it’s true that modern psychology is founded on the assumption that, in general, humans tend to think and behave rationally, this assumption has become somewhat of a misnomer in the realm of...
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Gray is the way
Referred to as the ‘pig in the python’ generation, the baby boomers are certainly living up to their reputation as they enter retirement with an assertive bang rather than a deathly whimper. They’re...
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Dropping the baton
It never ceases to fascinate me that so many entrepreneurs who have literally invested their hearts and souls into forming, growing and running immensely successful businesses, fail to take that one...
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Passing the torch
Handing a family business from one generation to the next comes with its own unique set of succession problems, all of which have been well researched and documented. In fact, family-owned businesses –...
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How much is enough?
Obviously, a significant part of our role as financial planners is to ensure that each of our clients has enough money invested to achieve their financial goals. We carefully plan our clients’...
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It’s a question of time
One would think that, with over 75 years of reliable stock market data, there would be fewer investors out there hell-bent on trying to hone the art of timing stock markets and more long-term investors...
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Too good to be true
Think Bernard Madoff, Charles Ponzi and J. Arthur Brown and you’ll no doubt think fraudsters, white collar con-artists and investment scams. Through his Ponzi-styled investment scheme, Madoff managed...
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Don’t stop the magic
With something as immensely powerful as compound interest at the fingertips of every income earner, it’s a wonder that so many South Africans are hopelessly under-invested for retirement. With an...
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The great escape
It goes without saying that an economic downturn gives rise to inevitable changes in consumer behaviour, particularly when it comes to the spending habits of the broader consumer market. The mere...
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Women of worth
If necessity is the master of invention, then it’s safe to say that South African women have an impressively long list of needs, especially when it comes to business. Recent research into our country’s...
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Not a penny more
Of all the tactical weapons available to retailers when promoting their wares, the seemingly simplistic ploy of pricing could have more powerful leverage than one would imagine. In the competitive...
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The power of the pink purse
Women are so devious. While the earth’s super powers compete for the position of the world’s largest economy, all the females in the world assemble unassumingly together and steal first place. Still...
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