Are you a gambler, trader or investor?Are you a gambler, trader or investor? Take the test to discover your investment approach. Investing – For All the Days of Your Life Link your investment strategy to your life-cycle. Though people at different stages may have portfolios of the same assets, the mix (or weighting) of each type of asset should be different...To diversify or not to diversify Diversification has so profoundly influenced investment analysis and portfolio management that every conventional investment portfolio is now sufficiently diversified to remove or reduce the specific risk associated with an individual stock.Activist Investors: Locusts or creators of value?When the CEO’s of the big three U.S. auto makers arrived in Washington in February, hats in hand and looking for a government bailout, they arrived in three separate corporate jets. The uproar over this extravagance at a time of crisis, for both the companies and the global financial system, led Barrack Obama to move more quickly and brutally than any hedge fund to remove Rick Wagoner as the boss of General Motors. A History of Money: From Quantitative Easing to Quantitative Weeping A brief history of money, as narrated by Nicholas van der Meer.

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Political ViewsIn PoliticalViews, Ryland Fisher asks whether things are worse now than under apartheid.Inflation expectations in 2010Even though the CPI might well again pop out of the target band for the next month or so, there is limited upside risk to inflation in 2010.Planning to be a successful investorAnyone who is serious about success needs a plan – failing to plan is planning to fail. The investor’s plan should be centred on helping him to decide which stocks to buy, when to buy them and when to sell.Choice: Is too much a bad thing? The opportunity to choose enriches our lives, and if some choice is good, more must surely be better. But is this really the case? Recent research suggests just the opposite...The World in 20102009 was certainly not light on drama. We had the worst financial crash in living memory, and some of the biggest banks in the world effectively came under state control. Unless Joost van der Westhuizen is voted Role Model of the Year, it is hard to see how 2010 can offer anything more surprising. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Investors How can we ensure that we swell the ranks of the investors and avoid the dreaded “speculator” category? We have identified seven key actions that effective investors should consider before parting with their cash. CEOs – who pays when they play?Since the global financial system imploded in 2008, governments and shareholders have had their knives out for CEOs and their exorbitant salaries.The 6 things you should teach your children (or spouse, friends, yourself) about wealthLearning to save is probably the most important thing you can teach your child about wealth. It is not only prudent to put something away for a ‘rainy day’, but it also encourages children to save for a large costly item instead of buying it on credit.Biases and Rules of Thumb – Mental Pitfalls that Trap the Best of Us One of the biases that severely affect our ability to make rational predictions and decisions is known as “anchoring”: the tendency of human beings to focus too heavily on a single piece of information when making forecasts. Research has shown that this tendency can have powerful and often damaging effects on our investment decisions.How Big is Your Investment in the Ultimate Currency? The developed countries of the world are facing a disturbing paradox: as levels of prosperity rise, levels of misery are rising even faster. Tal Ben-Shahar, a young Israeli psychologist who teaches the most popular course at Harvard University, believes we err by chasing wealth. We should instead be focusing on what he calls the “ultimate currency”...Inflation 101 – A Guide for the Perplexed In the long run, inflation is essentially a monetary phenomenon. It occurs if the amount of money circulating in the economy grows faster than the gross domestic product...The Economics of Happiness Few would dispute the fact that recent decades have seen a huge increase in consumerism in most of the world’s developed countries. And why not? It’s good for the economy, and we’ve even come to believe that it’s good for us as individuals...Introducing....Sharenet MobileLive share prices or indices sent to your cell phone. Besides offering monthly subscriptions for JSE data, Sharenet also offers a ‘pay-as-you-use’ option, where you can have information sent to your cell phone via SMS, anywhere in South Africa. Learn to earn on the stock exchangeIf you want to begin trading on the JSE and are looking for guidance, or you want to brush up on your stock exchange knowledge, Sharenet College offers a 27-module Stock Exchange Course that equips you with the relevant skills and information to help you navigate the equity markets and make wise investment decisions. Quickstream: Keeping an eagle eye on your portfolioIf you like to keep your finger on the pulse of the stock market, Quickstream may be just the programme for you. With a customised view of your portfolio, you can put through a trade and watch movements in your share picks as they unfold. Share Market Indices - An ExplanationA share market index is intended to give investors an idea of the overall movement in prices of a group of shares. An index can literally include all of the shares traded on a stock exchange (e.g. such as the JSE Allshare Index), or can represent a selection of just some of the shares (e.g. the JSE Top40 index). Charles Petit discusses what share market indices are all about...

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ARB Holdings Limited - Unaudited Interim Results for the Six Months Ended 31 December 2009The board of ARB is pleased to present the group`s interim results for the six months ended 31 December 2009.Sekunjalo Investments Limited - Results of the Annual General MeetingShareholders are hereby advised that the requisite majority of shareholders approved all of the ordinary and special resolutions tabled at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on Monday, 8 February 2010.Anglo American Plc Supports Anglo Platinum`s $1.6 Billion Rights OfferAnglo American plc announces that it has undertaken to subscribe in full to its entitlement to the rights offer announced today by its subsidiary company, Anglo Platinum.SACOIL Holdings Limited - Extension of agreements - Acquisition of Democratic Republic of Congo Oil concessions Shareholders are advised that the agreements in relation to the acquisition of the DRC oil concessions by the company have been extended to 8 March 2010.New Europe Property Investments plc - Preliminary results for the year ended 31 December 2009New Europe Property Investments plc, the holding company of a group of companies that forms a closed-ended property income fund, announces its preliminary results for the year ended 31 December 2009.Omnia Announces Review Of Unprofitable Phosphoric Acid PlantOmnia Fertilizer, a division of the Omnia Group, today announced that it will start a process to evaluate the possible mothballing of its phosphoric acid plant located outside of Rustenburg.Gold Fields Limited - Net Earnings Increase By 40% To R1.4 BillionGold Fields Limited today announced net earnings for the December 2009 quarter of R1,409 million…SABMiller Plc - Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment transaction in South AfricaSABMiller plc is pleased to announce that the High Court of Justice in England and Wales yesterday sanctioned the Scheme of Arrangement to give effect to the group`s proposed broad-based black economic empowerment transaction in South Africa.The period under review witnessed significant changes in the macro and micro economic environment in particular the introduction of the multicurrency system.

Political and economic stability followed the formation of the inclusive Government and this boosted the business climate in Zimbabwe.

While generally welcome, the dollarisation of the economy resulted in liquidity challenges for most industries. The demand for coal and coke was therefore adversely affected.