How Rate Hikes Affect Taxation of Your Nest Egg

How Rate Hikes Affect Taxation of Your Nest Egg

Higher Interest Rate = More Retirement Income. Now what about Tax? What is the effect on you when the Reserve Bank decides it needs to raise the interest rate further to curtail inflation? The market forces of demand and supply determine the price of a commodity. The...
How to Cope with Retrenchment  in a Positive Fashion

How to Cope with Retrenchment in a Positive Fashion

How to cope with retrenchment – it may be easy in theory… However when the emotional reality hits, coping with retrenchment can knock the stuffing out of you. In South Africa where as professionals we are faced with monthly expenses such as medical aid,...
Inflation Retirement – No One is Immune

Inflation Retirement – No One is Immune

The Weekender / Business Day 22/23 April 2006 With inflation retirement planning can be interesting – every investor has their unique set of financial circumstances, attitudes and issues. There are, however, common attitudes that we financial planners encounter often....
Investing – timing the markets

Investing – timing the markets

At this time of market uncertainty many of our clients are asking whether they should be investing now or waiting till later. Essentially what clients are asking us to do is attempt to time the markets. The problem is that few people, if any, can predict the top and...
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