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Shares / Re: Avoiding Sagarmatha Technologies private placement
« on: April 11, 2018, 02:12:03 pm »
AmaBhungane did great work on this too. To summarise it's a total scam and all you'll be doing is handing over money directly to Survé and his relatives.

http://amabhungane.co.za/article/2018-04-08-iqbal-surves-mythical-beast
What is more disconcerting is that the PIC and the trade unions are saying this is a great deal - can't understand why the employees of government aren't instructing PIC to disassociate from what looks like a Ponzi scheme

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Off topic / Re: Blackwater Global
« on: April 10, 2018, 06:00:29 pm »
Try a lawyer

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Shares / Re: ABSA stockbrokers becoming more expensive
« on: April 10, 2018, 10:21:18 am »
Seems I was wrong, ABSA now wants to charge me R172.50 per ETF to move. Quite a cheek considering my motivation for moving is them changing their terms compared to what I signed up for.
I think you may have a case against them if the document you signed was silent on the matter of transfer charges and now they have instituted such rules without getting your consent. Banks are notorious for invoking terms and conditions and charges without engaging their clients - my bank sends me sms' each month advising me of my current outstanding balance per card - I have written to them instructing them not to follow this practice with me but they neither care or heed my instructions and still persist. Now I will engage the CEO with the hope that he has more influence in stopping this practice where clients have issued an instruction

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Off topic / Re: Live chat
« on: March 29, 2018, 11:48:43 am »
The whole world is getting a walloping. I blame trump.
Not really - you need to include Russia, China and North Korea in this stupidity in the market - I think it is the traders buying on tick who move the market - the robots are trading as they have been instructed to, think it could progressively worse as more robots are brought onboard to trade - conventional investor could get hurt 

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Shares / Re: Pulverized Sand Box
« on: March 28, 2018, 04:55:30 pm »
Hey jaDEB how come you overlooked todays rout or +2.1% not significant to qualify :'(

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Off topic / Re: Live chat
« on: March 22, 2018, 03:45:09 pm »
I want to relate a story which quite simply is making me livid and it involves  my bank - Nedbank for whom I worked for neigh on 40 years
About 6 weeks ago I wanted to load a new beneficiary to my list on my profile - and the banks system returned an error message. I detest visiting my bank because I find the staff clumsy and award (read inefficient and poorly skilled) to resolve the matter. The bank were unable to tell me why the condition had occurred and upon writing to senior management of the bank they informed me that they had my landline as the mechanism of contact and as such that's why the error message happened, yet when I told them that all previous beneficiaries had been loaded successfully and that the authorization to proceed to load the beneficiary had always been on record and used - I merely had to respond to the message ye or no. When I pointed this out to the bank that this was the case they then informed me that the reason for blocking my ability to load beneficiaries was because I had not completed a FATCA declaration. On questioning them on what this was all about they informed me that all clients and not only clients of Nedbank are required to sign this declaration. In 2014 SA signed (along with many other countries) an accord with the USA wherein, foreign country banks provide data to SARS of all USA citizens who are holding banking accounts in these foreign countries. The principle behind this is that the IRS is trying to determine which of its citizens are holding funds in a foreign country and why they have not been declared to the IRS - this has a lot to do with terrorism and the curtailment of these activities.
So given that all bank clients are supposed to sign this declaration (my bank says it is similar to FICA - which I dispute as this legislation was tackled far more professionally to get everybody on board) I checked with a number of existing Nedbank staffmembers/and pensioners whom I know to gauge whether they had signed such a declaration - of the 8 approached not one had signed the declaration. When I visited the designated Nedbank branch to sign the declaration with a particular person he was unavailable (I have yet to sign the declaration) ask asked the frontline staff of Nedbank whether they had signed such a declaration and only 1 of 4 confirmed signing such a document. I then visited Standard Bank and ABSA in the Northgate (JHburg) centre and proceeded to engage some of their staff on this whole FATCA matter and only Standard confirmed to me that their system flags customers who have not signed a declaration but they did indicate that it was not a general rule that all their clients were required to sign the form. I further learnt that though this legislation has gone to parliament it has not been approved so in essence this is not eligible for enacting until such time as it is passed by parliament

So my question is rather who has signed this document with their bank - because to ask who has not may end up with an overwhelming no answer

Maybe one of the clever ones on this forum can run a survey schedule allowing 1 of 2 option either forumites have or haven't signed a FATCA declaration. Just as an aside those who have in fact signed this declaration are you aware as to what you signed - especially since you may only have a single citizenship, that being RSA

Interested in seeing responses

Thanks   

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Off topic / Re: Live chat
« on: March 21, 2018, 09:37:09 pm »
My Luno account was hacked - all my money gone - lovely :'(
jaDEB - I'm coming in a bit late on this matter - did you sign a contract with whoever Luno is - if you did, did they explain the T & C's or as is normal said to you read through the T & C's and then sign the form. In many cases they ask you to sign the document with all the T & C's but fail to explain those where you are at risk and which T & C's you should take note of specifically. They are also required to explain to you what their roles and responsibilities are and what the consequences are in your decision making process. If something is "hacked" then that is not due to your lack of security protocols but theirs and there well may be a case to answer by them that they are culpable and responsible for your loss due to their inability to secure your funds
I'm no lawyer but in banking one learns something about contracts - so the important issue here is whether a contract is in place, did they explain T & C's sufficiently for you to know what security arrangement you need to put in place and what were their responsibilities and accountabilities.

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Off topic / Re: Live chat
« on: March 16, 2018, 04:43:35 pm »
Here's something I'm exploring a bit. If you look at the ETF's in the top 50 - 60 positions in the competition maybe it makes sense to select a few and have them in your TFSA as bankers and/or as growth stock. I'm sure it would make more sense than being in bank investments which are subject to monetary erosion at the hands of inflation. Also because you can effectively trade these EFT's in your TFSA you can as an when prudent sell and bank profits and then reinvest in the same ETF and or change your portfolio holdings

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Shares / Re: TFSA
« on: March 13, 2018, 04:02:41 pm »
I see from 10/4 you will be able to buy STXNDQ which will have a Nasdaq as a basis - will wait a few days to see how its price tracks and if ok will put some in my TFSA account

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Off topic / Re: Live chat
« on: March 06, 2018, 02:17:05 pm »
Good. Maybe now they'll improve their quality control on the Weetbix line  :mad:
What's wrong with their weetbix?
Found the complete body of a fly about 3 weeks ago, wings still attached. And before that it was what looked like a tadpole. Have a pic of the fly somewhere.
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Well they do say its SA favourite breakfast cereal, and you can be thankful that all the bits and pieces of the fly and tadpole were intact  :LHST: :LHST:

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Busy planning a wedding...small elopement kinda event: the two of us and the two moms and dads. Costs are crazy unless you really sacrifice.

6 people wedding venue + photographer: R10,000

Because of distance we need three rooms (includes breakfast):
R3200

Marriage officer, up to:
R5000

Wedding dress, rings, plane tickets, dinner... It just adds up and getting close to R50,000 and that's using a cheap photographer.

Plan B:
Wedding dress, rings, marriage officer, just the two of us and a photographer...R40k easy.

Plan C is not gonna happen but I reckon jeans, button shirt, nice dress, marriage officer and a selfie stick :D Minister of Home Affairs said no :(
Marriage is a business proposition between 2 parties and it all revolves around a plan.
Select a number of locations suss them out and choose the 1 that has the best value for money. Ask both parents plus the would be bride and groom whom to invite as absolutely essential (you could lose an inheritance from an aunt/uncle or parent so weigh this up carefully). Then list all those close and recently married friends and acquaintances who invited you to their wedding. Once you have done the weeding out you can then do the maths and work on what you can afford to spend (inclusive of in laws and parents contribution). Then select a venue and guests and anybody who wishes to stay over at the venue must cover their own costs. This is hopefully a once in a lifetime event so make it good and don't do it through a registry office or a court your spouse deserves better than that   

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Off topic / Re: Live chat
« on: March 05, 2018, 05:02:36 pm »
Good. Maybe now they'll improve their quality control on the Weetbix line  :mad:
Weet-bix is a product of Bokomo (my grandfather was head miller in the late 60's) which is in the Pioneer stable

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Shares / Re: GT247
« on: February 27, 2018, 07:02:36 pm »
Easy Equities is part of the Purple Group - it also has a company GT247 which was a trading platform. When I went on retirement in 2005 I used to read a daily bulletin board (can't remember the name right now) and the people commenting on this board were all traders from around the globe - they operated in London, SA, Hong Kong, Canada, Australia, America. They absolutely castigated GT247 for poor administration, fouling up orders and unwarranted charges. Some were quite acerbic in their criticism of the company and its head honcho - Mark Barnes who is still chairman and is now the CEO of SAPO and has gone on record to say that he will fix this operation.My opinion

How does your experience after 2005 relate to this Noseweek investigation on GT247?
Never dealt with GT247 - merely relating comments related to circa 2005 - was sufficient for me to steer away from the company

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Off topic / Re: Live chat
« on: February 26, 2018, 11:27:42 pm »
See Cyril the squirrel had to compromise on choosing his cabinet. Suppose he will have to wait for the election and then purge the deadwood when we end up with a coalition government next year

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Shares / Re: TFSA
« on: February 23, 2018, 04:04:24 pm »
I don't trust their platform. It feels like a very manual system with a "slick" UI ion top of it. Over the last three years I've had numerous issues like my total holdings not adding up, repeated incidents where extra charges are applied when buying ETFs and most recently they completely messed up a corporate action and wrongly credited accounts only to reverse it two months later.

It just feels like something is constantly going wrong. I'll keep my small share portfolio there but since the TFSA has grown to a sizable amount I'd like to move it.

Personal opinion. The developer in me is seeing red :p
I already run a share portfolio with the bank I worked for, so I asked them to open a second portfolio account for me and all my TFSA transactions are conducted over this account without interference with my main portfolio which is subject to CGT and other taxes so have kept them apart for so that there are no disputes with SARS now or in the future as and when they changes the rules around TFSA. Also by keeping them as separate entities I can trade over the TFSA (if I wanted to) without being restricted to hold the instruments for 3 years which I am compelled to on my main portfolio if I don't want to be classified as a trader 


I have had similar experiences and share your concern here, interested to hear where you would move the TFSA to ?


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