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Shares / Share Performance Tracking Application
« on: May 23, 2016, 04:44:01 pm »
Hi
Has anyone discovered a good share performance, including dividends tracking application??

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Shares / Lonmin
« on: February 09, 2016, 04:49:14 pm »
Lonmin said its South African platinum mines are breaking even ahead of schedule after it closed shafts and cut thousands of jobs, while earnings from exports have improved due to a weaker rand.
The world’s third-biggest platinum miner is meeting a capital and operating cost target of R11 200 ($691) per ounce for a basket of platinum-group metals, chief executive officer Ben Magara said in an interview in Cape Town on Tuesday. That’s lower than the R11 300 it’s currently receiving for selling each ounce, he said.
The biggest producers are suffering from an almost 50% plunge in platinum prices in the past five years. Johannesburg-based Lonmin is restructuring its Marikana mines and has cut more than 5 000 jobs to help weather the rout. The plan, which also entailed raising about $400 million from shareholders, targeted breaking even by September 2017.
“We are actually there and thereabouts,” Magara said. “One swallow doesn’t make a summer. There are continuing moving parts,” he said, referring to exchange rates, metal prices and operating conditions. The company can reduce costs further, he said.
South African producers have benefited from the rand’s 28% slide against the dollar over the past year. That’s because they incur costs in the local currency while getting paid in dollars.
©2016 Bloomberg News

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Shares / DBX Values
« on: January 25, 2016, 12:00:12 pm »
DBX ETFs: current net yield:
EU= 1.83%
UK= 3.34%
US= 1.17%
JP= 0.85%
Net of taxes and fees
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Shares / Best paying dividends on small cap shares!!
« on: December 14, 2015, 11:22:50 am »
The best dividend paying penny shares on our market right now
 
Company Name    Sector                                    Dividend Yield
ACCPROP    Real Estate Investment Trusts    8,71%
ALTRON            Electronic & Electrical Equipment    5,64%
AMECOR    Electronic & Electrical Equipment    8,42%
ARGENT    General Industrials                            6,50%
ARROWA    Real Estate Investment Trusts    8,45%
ASCEN A    Real Estate Investment Trusts    5,66%
COGNITION    Software & Computer Services    6,22%
COMAIR            Travel & Leisure                            5,98%
DELPROP    Real Estate Investment & Services 11,67%
EQSTRA      General Industrials                             18,46%
FAIRVEST    Real Estate Investment Trusts    9,16%
HULAMIN    Industrial Metals & Mining            6,11%
INSIMBI            Industrial Metals & Mining            5,36%
ISA                    AltX                                             5,56%
M&R-HLD    Construction & Materials            6,33%
MAZOR            Construction & Materials            5,83%
NEDBANK-P    Preference Shares                     8,89%
PAN-AF            Mining                                            7,64%
PRESCIENT    Financial Services                            5,91%
SA CORP    Real Estate Investment Trusts    8,02%
SAFARI            Real Estate Investment Trusts    8,24%
TEX            Real Estate Investment Trusts    11,30%
TOWER            Real Estate Investment Trusts    9,86%
VALUE            Industrial Transportation             6,30%
VERIMARK    General Retailers                           12,73%
WINHOLD    Support Services                            7,00%

Average    8,08%

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Off topic / The Devil's Financial Diary
« on: December 04, 2015, 08:07:09 am »
FROM The Devil’s Financial Dictionary by Jason Zweig:
 Data (n): The raw material from which Wall Street fabricates distortions for marketing purposes.

Downside protection, (n): A tactic put in place by a financial adviser to protect against whatever hurt the value of a portfolio last time. Ensuring the portfolio will be hurt by something entirely different next time.

Financial journalist, (n): An expert at moving words about markets around until they sound impressive, regardless of whether they mean anything. Nowadays, most financial journalists are honest, which is progress, and ignorant, which isn’t.

Forecasting, (v): The attempt to predict the unknowable by measuring the irrelevant; a task that … employs a lot of people on Wall Street.

High net worth individual, (n): The term brokers, financial advisers, fund companies and wealth managers use to describe someone whose assets can yield a gusher of fees. You could just call these folks "rich people", of course, but that would be crass — and poor marketing. It’s always easier to pick someone’s pocket when you use jargon to make that person feel like part of a private club whose members are rich.

Self-control, (n): The secret to success as an investor. Within you lurk an angel, a devil, a scholar and an idiot. If the angel and the scholar ever let down their guard, the devil and the idiot will wreak havoc that will take years of work to undo.

Stock market, (n): A chaotic hive of millions of people who overpay for hope and underpay for value. Tactical asset allocation, (v): A way of describing "market timing" with nine syllables instead of four, making it sound nearly two-and-a-half times more impressive. That does not make it more successful.

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Shares / Astoria IPO
« on: November 06, 2015, 11:35:32 am »
Astroria Initial Public Offering
Astoria is a global investment company which is inward listing on the JSE in November 2015. The objective of the company is to deliver a sustained, strong compound growth in value per shares in US$. The company invests in global, high quality equities, niche funds and private equity.

By buying an Astoria share in a SA share portfolio, SA investors will have immediate access to a diversified global investment portfolio, denominated in US$. The share is an alternative to investing in SA-listed shares with global exposure and passive index-tracking funds.

Offer opens Monday 16 November 2015. Offer closed Monday 16 November at 12 noon. Minimum Rand application amount is R 5000 with increments of R 100 thereafter.

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Shares / Sunday Times Top 100 JSE Companies 2015
« on: October 30, 2015, 01:47:36 pm »
RANK   COMPANY                             AVERAGE ANNUAL COMPOUND RETURN (%)
1   FORTRESS INCOME FUND                                          72.70
2   TRUSTCO GROUP HOLDINGS                                  70.43
3   EOH HOLDINGS                                                          69.38
4   TASTE HOLDINGS                                                          53.06
5   CORONATION FUND MANAGERS                              51.47
6   AFRIMAT                                                                          49.38
7   BRAIT SE                                                                  48.28
8   CAPITAL & COUNTIES PROPERTIES plc                  47.76
9   PSG GROUP                                                                  47.27
10   ONELOGIX GROUP                                                  45.53
11   MONDI plc                                                                  44.92
12   NASPERS                                                                  42.09
13   NEW EUROPE PROPERTY INVESTMENTS plc          42.07
14   CONDUIT CAPITAL                                                  42.06
15   SUPER GROUP                                                          41.18
16   CONSOLIDATED INFRASTRUCTURE GROUP          40.37
17   MR PRICE GROUP                                                     40.06
18   CASHBUILD                                                                  39.34
19   RESILIENT PROPERTY INCOME FUND                  38.40
20   PIONEER FOODS GROUP                                          38.07
21   STEINHOFF INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS                  36.94
22   FAMOUS BRANDS                                                     36.49
23   WOOLWORTHS HOLDINGS                                          35.81
24   MEDICLINIC INTERNATIONAL                                    35.70
25   AVI                                                                                  32.98
26   ASPEN PHARMACARE HOLDINGS                          32.87
27   DISCOVERY                                                                  32.60
28   CAPITEC BANK HOLDINGS                                          31.96
29   METAIR INVESTMENTS                                          31.67
30   AFROCENTRIC INVESTMENT CORPORATION          31.47
31   ZEDER INVESTMENTS                                                  31.39
32   OCEANA GROUP                                                          30.90
33   FIRSTRAND                                                                  30.46
34   ITALTILE                                                                          29.86
35   SPUR CORPORATION                                                  29.33
36   RMB HOLDINGS                                                          29.32
37   NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES Inc                          29.26
38   GRAND PARADE INVESTMENTS                                  28.70
39   METROFILE HOLDINGS                                          28.53
40   PEREGRINE HOLDINGS                                          28.33
41   HOWDEN AFRICA HOLDINGS                                  28.33
42   COMPAGNIE FIN RICHEMONT                                  28.23
43   LIFE HEALTHCARE GROUP                                          28.17
44   NETCARE                                                                  27.80
45   KAP INDUSTRIAL HOLDINGS                                  27.52
46   BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO plc                          26.65
47   SANLAM                                                                          25.78
48   HYPROP INVESTMENTS                                          25.68
49   SABMILLER plc                                                          25.44
50   OMNIA HOLDINGS                                                    25.10
51   OLD MUTUAL plc                                                          24.87
52   CLIENTELE LIFE ASSURANCE                                  24.80
53   VODACOM GROUP                                                  24.78
54   MUSTEK                                                                          24.54
55   ELB GROUP                                                                  24.10
56   REMGRO                                                                  23.26
57   DISTELL GROUP                                                          23.20
58   CAPITAL PROPERTY FUND                                        22.93
59   PINNACLE HOLDINGS                                                  22.06
60   CLICKS GROUP                                                          21.91
61   THE BIDVEST GROUP                                                  21.84
62   THE SPAR GROUP                                                  21.66
63   INVICTA HOLDINGS                                                  21.04
64   BRIMSTONE INVESTMENT CORPORATION          20.81
65   THE FOSCHINI GROUP                                                  20.50
66   ADVTECH                                                                  20.44
67   MIX TELEMATICS                                                          20.23
68   SEPHAKU HOLDINGS                                                  20.18
69   REINET INVESTMENTS S.C.A                                  20.02
70   SA CORPORATE REAL ESTATE FUND                  19.86
71   DATATEC                                                                  19.83
72   ARB HOLDINGS                                                          19.80
73   PHUMELELA GAMING AND LEISURE                          19.68
74   SANTAM                                                                          19.53
75   J S E                                                                          19.38
76   BLUE LABEL TELECOMS                                          19.23
77   MMI HOLDINGS                                                          18.95
78   INVESTEC plc                                                                  18.92
79   LIBERTY HOLDINGS                                                  18.70
80   TRANSPACO                                                                  18.14
81   BARLOWORLD                                                          17.39
82   REDEFINE PROPERTIES                                          17.20
83   TRADEHOLD                                                                  17.20
84   CITY LODGE HOTELS                                                  17.18
85   GROWTHPOINT PROPERTIES                                  17.10
86   PAN AFRICAN RESOURCES plc                                  16.01
87   IMPERIAL HOLDINGS                                                  16.00
88   NAMPAK                                                                          15.60
89   HOSKEN CONSOLIDATED INVESTMENTS                  15.51
90   ASTRAL FOODS                                                          15.47
91   VUKILE PROPERTY FUND                                          15.38
92   TELKOM SA SOC                                                          15.16
93   OCTODEC INVESTMENTS                                          15.14
94   INTU PROPERTIES plc                                                  15.13
95   EMIRA PROPERTY FUND                                          14.94
96   HUDACO INDUSTRIES                                                  14.92
97   COMBINED MOTOR HOLDINGS                                  14.67
98   NEDBANK GROUP                                                          14.51
99   SHOPRITE HOLDINGS                                                  14.43
100   SYCOM PROPERTY FUND                                          14.35

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Off topic / Little bit of humour
« on: October 12, 2015, 02:31:46 pm »
Courtesy of Sanlamitrade

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Off topic / Dividends - Rands or cent
« on: October 09, 2015, 12:58:19 pm »
The dividend declarations are very confusing, some companies will say 292.3025 cents, are these figures R292.30 or R29.23 or .29 cents. Very confusing for this newbie :wall: :wall: :wall:

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Shares / TFSA - New Regulations (Maybe)
« on: October 08, 2015, 01:26:03 pm »
http://www.bdlive.co.za/opinion/columnists/2015/10/08/some-pain-on-the-way-for-investors


Found this very interesting reading!!

A THREE-year-old government discussion document titled Incentivising Non-Retirement Savings flags some good and some bad news to be expected in coming budget speeches.

The good news is a transition period of about two years is envisioned during which you will be allowed to bypass the R30,000 a year deposit limit on the tax free savings accounts (TFSAs) introduced this year, depending on how old you are. People 65 and older will be allowed to transfer the full lifetime allocation of R500,000 in one go, those 60-65 years old will be allowed to deposit three-quarters of the lifetime limit, 50-59-year-olds one half and 45-49-year-olds a quarter.

The bad news is this is to compensate savers for doing away with interest income exemptions of R23,800 if you are under 65 and R34,500 if you are 65 or older.

"The interest income tax exemption thresholds will be phased out during the transition period. Such phasing will take account of the needs of pensioners who are currently dependent on interest income, and will only be implemented after the consultation process has been completed," the discussion document says.

The Treasury economists who authored the document provided some history to the incumbent system of not taxing interest earned up to a certain limit and concluded: "The existing interest income exemption is not an effective instrument for encouraging savings amongst low- to moderate-income taxpayers."

The original thinking behind allowing people to earn interest up to a certain limit tax free was not to encourage saving, but to simplify tax administration. According to the Treasury, in the 2008 fiscal year not taxing interest income "cost" government about R3bn.

"In order for incentives to be cost-effective, the amount of new saving generated must be more than sufficient to offset the costs to government of revenue foregone."

A key concern of government policy makers, which is a recurring theme in the discussion document, is that the incentives should encourage "new savings" among poorer households rather than "asset shifting" by the rich.

The architects of the TFSAs studied systems implemented in three countries — Belgium, Canada and UK — before concluding the UK’s individual savings accounts (ISA) system was the best role model.

"The higher participation rates by higher-income earners appear to be less acute in the UK’s ISA model than in others. While there does seem to be some level of asset shifting in the ISA model, there is evidence of new saving that was created," the study found.

The local TFSAs are not an exact copy of ISAs. For instance, the UK encourages its citizens to invest in equities by making it a rule that only half the annual cap of £11,280 can be held in a cash account.

One of the big successes of the UK’s ISAs, which the TFSAs do seem to be replicating here, is to bring more transparency and competition to the stockbroking market. When I started this column a couple of months ago, a key gripe was the unaffordable fees charged to small investors. Besides rolling out TFSAs, more retail investor friendly products like exchange-traded-fund-only accounts have been launched by Absa Stockbrokers, something I would have started with if I had had the option a few years ago.

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Shares / AQUARIUS PLATINUM
« on: October 06, 2015, 11:06:31 am »
JOHANNESBURG – Neal Froneman has taken another step towards transforming Sibanye into a significant producer of Platinum Group Metals (PGM’s) with the announcement on the 6th of October to purchase the entire issued share capital of Aquarius Platinum. This could represent yet another step in Sibanye’s ambitions of becoming South Africa’s mining champion.
The offer has been made at $0.195/share, which based on yesterday’s rand/dollar exchange rate translates to R2.66/share. The board of Aquarius has unanimously endorsed the offer.
The transaction will allow Sibanye to consolidate the operations of Aquarius – which include the Kroondal and Mimosa mines – with those of the Rustenburg operations it recently acquired from Anglo American Platinum.

AQUARIUS PLATINUM TO BE SOLD TO SIBANYE GOLD, WHAT DOES THIS MEAN IF YOU HAVE SHARES IN AQUARIUS PLATINUM?????

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Shares / Newbie Questions
« on: October 01, 2015, 04:07:36 pm »
Hi

I got involved with the Sanlam Itrade Competition in June, for curiosity's sake. Never been exposed to JSE Shares before. Since then I have started investing very small.. still trying to get my feet wet without losing too much money. My question is as follows:

When is a good time to sell your shares? Some articles recommend when you get to 15% profit..

I am trying to get together a pension fund for my husband and myself.  Looking to invest for the next 5-10 years.

I know that if you trade your shares, you are considered a trader by SARS, but I want to build up capital to reinvest in shares.

Thanks
Margueritte

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