The Couch Potato’s Guide to InvestingLet’s face it: investing successfully on the stock market is hard work. If you want to beat the professionals at their own game, you must be prepared to work at it.

Morning Market Report

Flat Day for JSEMon, 12 May - 15:40
The JSE is trading flat today as there is little in the form of news to add to any kind of direction. The rand is slightly firmer today, trading at around R7.66/$. Analysts expect the local unit to ...

The evolution of the online property businessModern property firms have harnessed the potential of the net to such a degree that not only are they providing better service to buyers and sellers alike, traditional ‘bricks and mortar’ agencies are in danger of being left in the dust. Are We Living In the Shadow of the Big Bear?If you look at an outline map of the tip of the Cape Peninsula, without place names and any indication of the scale involved, do you realize that you could very well be examining a map of South America? Interesting, you might say, but what has this got to do with the markets?

Financial Planning Through The AgesAs we go through life our income varies and our needs change. As a result, our priorities change as we age, and our financial planning should take cognisance of this. In this article, the first of three, we will highlight the issues which people face in their 20's and 30's.Financial Planning In Your 40's and 50's For many people in this age group, the opening line of Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities will ring true: "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times". At best these are the high-earning years, and you will be able to salt away plenty of income. At worst, this is also the time of life when the demands on your finances are greatest.

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Imperial Receives Offer For TourvestImperial Holdings has received a formal offer of R2.08 per share for their tourism services group Tourvest. Chinese Director for Standard BankYang Kaisheng has been appointed as a non-executive director and deputy chairperson of Standard Bank.Good Results for BarloworldBarloworld have reported an increase of 104% in diluted headline earnings per share for continuing operations for the six months ending March.