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Sharenet carried a story about Nandos coming back to the stock market. The Telegraph carried a more detailed story about Nandos including the obvious benefit of raising funds in GBP instead of ZAR.

I will be buying if there's a duel-listing on JSE. What were the reasons they un-listed from the JSE in 2003?

Greed by the directors and they were more interested in expanding in Australian than running their SA outlets.
Still haven't decided whether they were just stupid or exceedingly arrogant as business managers
Today I don't think Nando's is relevant in the SA market anymore.
Myself I never invest in companies who left the JSE under a cloud or through sheer arrogance by management, only to return so if Nando's return I shan't be buying - Holdsport is a returned entity and Edgars is also likely to return but I will not take up any investment in either of these companies - firmly believe in "once bitten twice shy"

So the $ has peaked. This is good for commodities and ZAR. My prediction of sub 13 is looking real if Z does not move Pravin out.

Maybe read "The Rand" thread where some of us made predictions - quite interesting to see that the direction has so far been correct

The above site listed by Patrick shows the top 10 holdings, but, more importantly the rebalancing is listed as September 2016 whereas there was a rebalancing in December 2016.
If you are operating on a broker platform and your look up Sens notifications for SATRIXIND it list the full investment portfolio of this ETF plus the most current % holdings
There is a bit of an unknown as to the value of the ETF going forward (I do and will continue to maintain my holdings) as it includes both Steinhoff and Shoprite and with the cross holdings/merges and splits it may change the structure of the ETF and also the % holdings
So some interesting times ahead around the whole SNH and SHP integration
 

Welcome to the site.
I read on one of the web sites this a.m. that you can double your wealth in 8 years if you achieve a 10% return on your investments; and, if you get a 15% return on your investments it would double in 5 years. 2016 has been a volatile year so achieving these types of return may prove somewhat difficult to achieve, but, never stop trying.
Given the time frame within which you wish to retire you would probably need quite a large sum of money to invest to achieve a reasonable nest egg - i.e. wealth which is there to supplement your pension, as CPI and other charges start eroding your pension.
Maybe you need to look at is a pension that will give you a minimum of 70 - 75% of your last earned salary, and that you are in a position where you don't need to commute any portion of that pension on retirement. Also if working for a boss check out the rules of the pension fund - will you incur any penalties to your pension fund if you retire ahead of a given age - some companies impose a retirement age of anything between 55 and 63 - so be aware of the requirements so that you don't suffer penalties. Also by commuting part of your pension at retirement date all future increases awarded by your pension will  (my Dad worked for the government of old and his pension increase annually was basically 1.0% below CPI - not a healthy position to be in) be based on the residual pension and by the time you get to your late 60's you suddenly realize that you don't have enough funds to sustain yourselves as you are still part and parcel of escalating costs for medical, medical aid contributions, tax, municipal rates and taxes (only get some relieve after age 70) and basic cost of living.
Also be aware that banks are loathe to lend pensioners money because their longevity in indeterminable and you may well have to take very short term loans to meet household needs and maybe the replacement of a car.

I retired early without penalties and live very comfortable on my pension, my investment portfolio has been strengthened through reasonably astute investments (plus some disasters) so I don't want to pop your bubble of dreams.
Do yourself a favour put yourself in a retired position at say 70 - then envisage how you want to live (forecasted salary at that stage of your life) and then work backwards, and then challenge your pension fund (presuming you do belong to a pension fund) to tell you how much you would need to set aside annually/monthly to meet that particular target. If you see that there is gong to be a gap, then that is where your investment strategy comes in to play to fill that gap

Hope this help in not only looking forwards but also backwards so that you can run your journey with your eyes wide open. I haven't mentioned it but I am extremely prejudiced against RA's so do your homework especially around fees and fees for extending the time horizon of the RA
Good luck       

Click on my holdings, that'll charge you up with cash. You'll need to start new groups again though.

Hi Patrick - did this and placed 2 "buys" - both executed but my name does not appear on the list though it highlighted my share value at position 30. The holding form did show "Hullo gcr"
Can you correct on my behalf please
Thanks  - gcr

Quote from: conradl on December 23, 2016, 06:53:57 am

Seeing as the title is relevant to my question i'd like to hear your guys' opinions:

1. I have money investing in 2 dividend ETFs in the US.
2. A pays every month giving me about $50 per month
3. B pays quarterly at $110 per quarter.
4. So the total dividend is approximately $1000 per annum

To buy more etfs costs minimum $20 ie R350. The conflict im sitting with is, do I save up to $1000 and then buy some more of these ETFs (only one of the two, because of the $20 per trade) and miss out on a year's growth potential or less and let the fees corrode my return  What would you do?

Conrad

Could you not perhaps add some extra funds to your offshore portfolio so that you have enough to make an economical trade. If not I would rather wait till you have at least $1000, markets could also be lower in a year, and paying more than 2% upfront on assumption they will be higher is to me not a worthwhile risk/return analysis.

If you are in one of the Vanguard funds you can supposedly reinvest dividends back into the fund, but, you would need to check this with your "broker" because it may be cheaper to automatically reinvest rather than take the dividend and then have to invest

Hi Kwaila83, why not introduce yourself

+1

I can't see this deal not going through if you look at the directors (cross directorships) of the entities throw on PSG and Tradehold; then at the end of the day it will merely be an incestuous marriage of convenience. The interesting thing to me will be how they land this monster and dictate office space to the sub entities. Checkers Shoprite are traditionally food supermarkets so incorporating other operations is going to be space challenging. In the Hyperrama's  no problems as they already sell furniture and white goods and electronics can easily sit under Hi Fi or Incredible Connection. Think this is going to take years to rationalise which takes considerable expenditure, consolidating, merging, up/down scaling. Can't see it having an impact on staff numbers, yet, but maybe in next 3 -5 years but they will reduce number through normal attrition
Some interesting times ahead for these brands