Be a Better Investor

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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.

A different approach to investing
‘Ultimately, if you don't have a good grasp or understanding of the risk, you're setting yourself up for failure.’
Invested from age 10, saving his holiday-job earnings
'Being part of farm life, you plant, you wait for the season, and then when the produce comes you get your returns': Fannuel Tigere – Balondolozi Investment Services.
Don’t start off by going long and short
Try to focus your investing on things that you understand and give yourself a time horizon, advises - Asanda Notshe from Mazi Asset management.
Claire Rentzke: Junior MacGyver to polished investor
The best investment ever for the CIO of Sukha & Associates, has been her RA, which has ‘compounded and compounded and compounded’ untouched over the years.
Presenting a very solid approach many young people would be wise to follow
Investing is ‘not a piece of paper or a light on a screen. You're actually a business owner’: Grant Nader – Benguela Global.
Nolan Wapenaar: Navigating markets, lessons learned, and the pursuit of winners
While the Sunday Times share pages fascinated him at around age 10, today, it is analysis and research that get him out of bed in the mornings.
A different kind of ‘angel’ investor
‘I've stuck with my principle in my stockbroking accounts or investment accounts that whatever is generated in there stays in there’: Craig Pheiffer, chief investment strategist at Sasfin Wealth.
Half a varsity scholarship paid for his initial investment education
Play to your strengths, figure out the aspects that you are better at, and try to use those to a greater degree than the things that you're weak at – Keith McLachlan of Integral Asset Management.
From ETF investor to Satrix CEO
It's been 23 years since the first index fund was launched, and Fikile Mbhokota says she's always held the view that it's better to hold a basket of shares instead of just one.
Learning from bygone investment luminaries creates a solid foundation
Get rid of debt and, after your bond is paid, invest and save that amount: Abdul Davids – Camissa Asset Management.
'Start investing early, don't be scared to do the hard work'
Charl de Villiers from Ashburton Investments talks about his 'roundabout journey' from initially studying engineering to becoming an investment professional.
‘Huge gap’ for retail investors to get on JSE – Makwe Masilela
The founder and CIO of Makwe Fund Managers shares his insights into investing and lessons gleaned over the years, remarking that ‘you don’t need to be an investment professional to invest’.
'Steinhoff really shook me'
Nkareng Siwale, MD and founder of RainDance Asset Management, on her journey to becoming an investment professional, and the lessons learned along the way.
Jacques Conradie explores the power of emotions in investment choices
‘One simple rule of thumb is to always consider whether you should be doing the exact opposite of what you feel like doing.’
Asief Mohamed's investment journey: The good, the bad, and the best
Two initial personal heavy investment losses failed to deter Aeon founder and CIO from a career in managing other people's money.
'You don't have to go big when you start investing'
Begin by dipping your toes in the market and don't follow the hype or what's trending on social media – Isabella Mnisi, sector head of asset management and funds at Rand Merchant Bank.
'My father taught me my first investment philosophy'
Brian Thomas, director and portfolio manager at Laurium Capital, shares his stock market wisdom.
Investor at age six; now a hedge-fund specialist
‘With long-only you've a blunt hammer in your toolbox...whereas in a hedge fund you've a whole array of tools’: OysterCatcher founder and CEO.
A ‘hold for life’ investment strategy has stood many people in good stead
‘If you want to buy because you think somebody else will be greedier than you, you really have to hope that they're a bigger fool than you are’: Madalet Sessions – Denker Capital.
From learning investing ‘on the job’ to AI fund management
‘You can see a time when the equivalent of ChatGPT takes market dynamics, interprets them and invests your money’ – Hywel George, Old Mutual.

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