Moving to Canada can be exciting but also a daunting experience. We lived in Durbanville (Cape Town) with a lovely surrounding of vineyards and mountains but that does seem very distant now to the big city of Toronto. There are so many things to consider during a time...
How will your ‘tax health’ look in 2024? Welcome to a brand new year, one that will, as always, present some challenges but along with challenges come opportunities and no doubt you are entering 2024 with great expectations of improving your life in many ways. If you...
As we approach our National Women’s Day we thought it may be interesting to see the difference between how Men and Women view finances and particularly as investors which of the genders is more astute and successful at it. As the John Gray book says, ‘Men are from...
As we will be on the threshold of Spring in the second half of this month, a time when new seeds are sown we thought a look at the importance of discipline in how we sow the financial seeds for our future could be of interest and possibly help some of our investors....
Author: Ian De Lange CA(SA) | Chief Investment Officer | Seed Investments Investing success starts with building savings, and savings requires keeping expenses lower than income. On a personal level this simply means budgeting and managing debt and expenses to...
The recent spate of interest rate hikes has got many property owners worried about whether they can continue to pay their bonds and even whether their property, as an investment, is the right place to have their money. Those who became property owners recently, in...