by anthonyb@timslatter.com | Sep 9, 2019 | Article, LIFE
The ancient philosopher Aristotle came up with a single word for what every person wants: ‘Eudaimonia’. Eudaimonia means happiness but more than that it alludes to a sense of fulfillment. Many people have viewed financial planning as the management of financial goals...
by anthonyb@timslatter.com | Sep 2, 2019 | Article, Market
September celebrates National Wills Week, a reminder to us all about the importance and necessity to create a Last Will and Testament. According to recent statistics, only 30% of South Africans have a will – which means that we have to be talking about this a...
by anthonyb@timslatter.com | Aug 28, 2019 | Article
Where is the real growth? “South Africa is in shock as first quarter GDP shrinks by 3.2%.” That was the news headlines last week. Not a great start to 2019! We had all hoped for an upturn in the economy this year given the dismal performance of the JSE last year as...
by anthonyb@timslatter.com | Aug 26, 2019 | Article, Market
There is a lot of good financial advice out there which goes something like this: ‘you know that money you don’t use every month? Well, take R50,000 and invest it in X now, and you’’ be happy later.’ Sound familiar? The problem with this advice is that it’s incredibly...
by anthonyb@timslatter.com | Aug 21, 2019 | Article
We hear about the benefits of compound interest so often that we seem to forget about it. We know we have to save, we know we must stay out of debt but somehow we often forget that compound interest plays a vital role in both of these. I was listening to Bruce...
by anthonyb@timslatter.com | Aug 19, 2019 | Article, Market
It’s Women’s Month, and we’ve been thinking lately about all the ways in which women are wonderful in matters of money. Women as investors don’t get praised often enough – there’s been an unfortunate stereotype in the past that keeps finances in ‘man territory’....
