by Ian Beere | Jun 6, 2023 | Financial planning and advice, Netto Invest Winter Newsletter 2023/2
In 2023, as a career woman in South Africa, we hope you are making professional waves for all the right reasons. We’re delighted to see women leading in business and entrepreneurship – and tackling their personal financial planning for a wealthy future,...
by Gareth Leonard | Jun 6, 2023 | Financial planning and advice, Netto Invest Winter Newsletter 2023/2
Even if you are an eternal optimist and confirmed “market bull” the behaviour of global investment markets in recent years has been challenging. We find ourselves in transition from a decades-long globalisation trend to one that could be more protectionist, with all...
by Ryan Winter | Jun 1, 2023 | Netto Invest Winter Newsletter 2023/2, Offshore investing, Tax and duties
Estate duty is a tax levied after death when we transfer assets to our heirs. Many countries around the world have estate duty laws (although some levy no estate duty at all). However, estate duty is not necessarily limited to the country in which you are a tax...
by Morne Bezuidenhout | Jun 5, 2023 | Investments, Netto Invest Winter Newsletter 2023/2
As an investor, you might wonder whether there is a correlation between a country’s GDP growth and the returns on its stock market. If there were, and if one could forecast which countries will have high rates of economic growth, you could use that knowledge to...
by Richard Sparg | Jun 1, 2023 | Investments, Netto Invest Winter Newsletter 2023/2
2022 saw large sell-offs globally in both the bond and equity markets within the same year. Given that these two asset classes often produce offsetting returns, a meaningful dual sell-off is extremely unusual. 2022 also produced extraordinary returns in the offshore...
by Michael Maré | Jun 1, 2023 | Financial planning and advice, Fraud, Netto Invest Winter Newsletter 2023/2
Do you remember the famous ‘inheritance scam’? Now common via email or even SMS, it was being run via the postal service back in the day. Fraudsters are nothing new, they just have more advanced ways these days of trying to prise open your bank account....
