Be a Better Investor

Oct 23 2024 150 ep. 19 mins 35

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Moneyweb editor Ryk van Niekerk hosts the weekly 'Be a Better Investor' podcast to give both amateur and established retail investors a peek at how professional investors invest. He chats to professional investors about their experiences in selecting potential investments, as well as how successful these processes have been. They discuss their biggest hits and misses and other topics, which may offer a few golden nuggets for listeners ... to become better investors.

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Keep it simple, sleep well at night, get (very) good returns

Oct 23 2024 18 mins

Investment strategies that led to a 1 600% return on Nvidia for Ziyaad Sarang of Revego Fund Managers and Investec.

Does ‘bunking school and jumping off cliffs’ foretell future investing?

Oct 09 2024 18 mins

Erik Nel of Terebinth Capital shows how you can reach your destiny through avid reading and working towards it.

Could standup comedy lead to investment insights?

Oct 02 2024 20 mins

Varshan Maharaj from Allan Gray has a lot of intellectual curiosity, sees participating in markets as a ‘contest of ideas’, believes in the basket approach to thematic investing, and tells us which ‘theme basket’ his proudest investment sits in.

‘Hedge funds can be a risk-reducer or diversifier, or a return-enhancer’

Sep 11 2024 13 mins

‘And alternative investments provide access to risk-and-return sources you wouldn't ordinarily get through traditional portfolios’ – Equilibrium CIO Kamini Naidoo.

'Don't invest in an investment you don't understand or can't value'

Sep 04 2024 22 mins

Company valuations drew her from the outset, so after a great deal of study, Derinia Mathura found herself a young professional managing the Melville Douglas Global Equity Fund.

When your first investment experience is with unit trusts at age seven …

Aug 28 2024 23 mins

You might become a portfolio manager at Sanlam Private Wealth – after trying your hand as a casino dealer, English teacher, lecturer and film producer. Thato Mashigo tells us his story.

Lebo Thubisi started by selling paraffin from a customised bakkie

Aug 07 2024 23 mins

In investments you learn that you need to make logical decisions and stay away from the emotive things, says the deputy chief investment officer for alternative investments at Alexforbes Investments.

You can't be too distant from an investment you make'

Jul 31 2024 16 mins

'Accumulating those small margins is how you become successful and build up a good track record and good return for yourself': Richo Venter, Inn8 Invest’s head of portfolio management.

To start investing, perhaps just go the fund route

Jul 24 2024 15 mins

Malawi-born Kondi Nkosi progressed from doing ‘business studies’ at school in then Bophuthatswana to being Country Head at Schroders SA today.

For young investors penny stocks may be the way to go

Jul 17 2024 22 mins

If my first ‘went to four cents, I sold it. When it came back to two cents, I bought it again.’ That' s how then teenager and now CIO at Sasfin Asset Managers, Arno Lawrenz, started.