Renee Eagar News Today

Striking the right balance in financial choices: weighing expert advisors against the influence of social media influencers.

Brenthurst outlines the relationship between financial advice and investment expertise and the fees you pay.

Now is not the time to overreact and distract from your long-term goals and trust in the experts to manage your portfolio.

Because of US dollar strength, we hope that lower US inflation will feed into lower rates and therefore a less buoyant dollar.

With the US, and therefore the world, barrelling toward what looks like a recession it is only natural to be feeling anxious.

The relative strength of the rand should give investors reason to cheer if you’re looking to get your rands into offshore accounts or assets.

They’re made with hay, look like they’d deter birds and stand tall on wooden sticks, but are far from your average scarecrows.

Why has the rand made a come-back? By Renee Eagar, CFP®*  The local currency’s strong come-back towards the end of 2020 took many by surprise in view of the continued and more severe impact of the global Covid-19 pandemic and worsening local economy. The rand was under massive pressure and traded at R19.26 in the first week of April 2020, shortly after SA went into hard lockdown and Moody’s downgraded the country to junk; voicing concern that the SA government’s debt is ballooning. The ...