Using debit orders to start your investment portfolio
As it is Youth month we find it fitting that we talk about starting your investment portfolio. With many of the obstacles facing youth in today’s day and age, let alone even thinking about saving or...
Mickey Mouse’s Oil – Re-Drillable Intellectual Property
Flash back to 1966 when the entire Disney company was for sale at $80 million (currently it is trading at $258 billion). Disney had a back catalogue of 200+ films that could be re-released over and...
Beyond Meat – Beyond Returns?
Dear Fintax Investor Last month the Balanced Fund returned 2.7% and the Growth Fund 3.5%. Over rolling 12 months the Funds have now returned 2.3% and 1.8%, respectively, relative to 5.8% for the...
The Cannabis Craze – Flying High
Over the past two years, various cannabis focussed companies have delivered between 337% and 455% for their investors. Tripling and quadrupling your money in two years is nothing to be coughed at....
The Curious Case of the African Growth Story
February was another positive month for the Fintax Funds with Growth adding 3.3% and Balanced adding 2.7% bringing the year to date returns to 12.9% and 10.7%, respectively. Rolling 12 months have...
The Biggest Threat to Liverpool & Netflix
December 2018 was the worst performing December for the global stock market since the Great Depression and the worst performing month since the Global Financial Crisis in 2008. Fortunately, in...
Markets Down, Value Up
In December 2018, global equity markets suffered their worst monthly performance since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC), thereby dragging down the year's returns. There were not a lot of...
The Goldilocks Zone
2018 has been a tough year for investors across all major equity indices. Year-to-date up to 30/11/2018 the MSCI All Countries World Index (ACWI)is down 2.30%. During these bouts of volatility, a...
The October Effect
Last month was a difficult month for global markets where the ‘October Effect’ was in full force. Simply put, the ‘’October Effect’’ is a theory that stocks tend to decline during the month of...
Paul Allen’s Wild Ride
Last month was a tough market for both equity and fixed income investors with the MSCI ACWI declining 0.1% and the major global fixed income index (ICE BofAML Global Broad Market) declining 0.5%....
Is the Software Train Leaving Value Investing in the Dust?
Is the Tech Train Leaving Value Investing in the Dust? In 2011 Marc Andreessen (founder of Netscape and billionaire investor) famously wrote the following: ‘’My own theory is that we are in the...
Oprah & Weight Watchers – Schooling Wall Street
Most people know that the Oprah Winfrey Show, often referred to simply as Oprah, is one of the longest-running and most successful daytime television talk shows in history. What is not as...