David Thomson, CFP®, Senior Legal Adviser at Sanlam Trust One of the consequences of the current coronavirus crisis has been an influx of queries around estate planning and the drawing up of a …
Medical aid and gap cover could save your life and your finances
Tony Singleton, CEO, Turnberry Management Risk Solutions The COVID-19 pandemic has turned the entire world upside down. For South Africans in the midst of lockdown, our entire way of life has been …
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Moody’s downgrade and the impact on your investments
Luigi Marinus, Portfolio Manager at PPS Investments The last of the three global ratings agencies, Moody's, lowered South Africa's sovereign credit rating to sub-investment grade late in March, and …
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Remain calm – your retirement savings and COVID-19
Nashalin Portrag, Head of FundsAtWork at Momentum Corporate Retirement fund members may be worried about the impact that volatility is having on the investment markets, where a big portion of their …
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The global cognitive distortion of panic and Covid-19
Paul Nixon, head of technical marketing and behavioural finance at Momentum Investments Where did all the toilet paper go? Snapshots of empty store shelves, low levels of storable staples like rice …
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Covid 19: A new environment for insurers to increase uptake of Income protection Insurance
Miranda Nokwanda Tshuma, Aris Brokers It is at a time when disaster strikes that you start to think of the "what if". Most South Africans are currently experiencing salary pay cuts, …