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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.
Last Episode Date: 9 October 2024
Total Episodes: 150
Erik Nel of Terebinth Capital shows how you can reach your destiny through avid reading and working towards it.
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.
‘And alternative investments provide access to risk-and-return sources you wouldn't ordinarily get through traditional portfolios’ – Equilibrium CIO Kamini Naidoo.
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.
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.
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.
'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.
Malawi-born Kondi Nkosi progressed from doing ‘business studies’ at school in then Bophuthatswana to being Country Head at Schroders SA today.
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.
‘Don’t just read about investments, read more history; and watch cash flow – if you have growth and you've got that cash flow, when any exogenous event hits the company and it's down 30, 40, 50%, you can buy more’: Sumesh Chetty, portfolio manager at Ninety One.
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