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Just had a quick scan and would be interested in this one.

https://www.blackrock.com/za/products/251787/ishares-euro-dividend-ucits-etf

The company, sector mix as well as the yield..

That is a fairly good yield, but IMEU (European index) has a 3% yield and has outperformed the divi index lately. It's not being offered though, I just have it here for comparison

I, like Hamster also use both. Last year I opened an Easy Equities account, and this year and ABSA account. I also tried to open an ABSA account for my sone this year, but their service was just too terrible and I couldn't get it done in time, so I opened an EE account for him too.

Then to check prices, I did trades on my sons EE TFSA and my ABSA TFSA at the same time buying DIVTRX. On both I received the ABSA live buy price of 2785. Looking at the trade volume that day, I was the only buyer, and no trades executed at any other price but R27.85. To compare costs, I received the following:
EE 179.5332 shares at R5018.54 = R27.95 per share
ABSA 179 shares at R5001.26 = R27.94 per share

So for me everything seems to be in order. ABSA is cheaper as I would imagine giving their 0.05% fee advantage, but by such a small amount it probably won't matter in the long term. Also I got more shares with EE, so their growth would probably cancel out the ABSA price advantage in the long term.

Once they set the legislation allowing you to move providers, I'll probably move everything to Easy Equities due to their vastly, incredibly, enormously better customer service. ABSA basically never responds to my emails, while EE does so promptly and efficiently, often calling me soon after to make sure I'm happy the outcome. Hard to believe that's the case considering I have a few bar with ABSA and only R30k in EE!

I'd move my private investing account to EE too, but the fact that ABSAs ETF only account is 0.05% cheaper makes sense for me right now with the larger amounts I invest in it.

So I thought the rand would be punished, but it seems I was wrong, R14.49. As if I needed another nail in the "I can't trade" coffin.

If that's what will be coming, and they'll stick to their TERs then it's a no brainer for me, SWDA (developed world) and EIMI (developing world) in probably a 85% 15% split* to represent the whole world. The combined TER should end up being around 0.21%. They accumulate, so dividends are automatically reinvested, some people like that, others don't, I'm neutral on it.

But here's what I don't get, SWDA is pound denominated, and eimi is $ denominated. I can't see how they could list those on the JSE, not without doing the currency exchange and adding to the TER at least. Hope I'm wrong...

*I currently put my offshore money into VWRD which is the equivalent of the above two funds, though non accumulating. It's TER is 0.25%, so maybe I should start doing IWDA (the $ based version of SDWA)/EIMI and save 0.04%   

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Out of curiosity do you guys let whole house or parts of it?

The whole house. We either stay go on holiday ourselves then, stay with family or in what must be joburgs smallest apartment we built (9sqm!).