The JSE and finance forum for South Africa
General Category => Shares => Topic started by: hilgardvr on March 07, 2016, 03:00:23 pm
-
Hey guys,
So I was wondering, what is your biggest challenge in investing(not trading) for yourself?
-
Not getting all emotional about it :p
-
Researching a system that suits you and the stocks that fit the method. Then, the most difficult part...... finding the money to invest. :(
-
Making Money, and if things go pear shape not to panic and make stupid decisions.
-
Researching a system that suits you and the stocks that fit the method. Then, the most difficult part...... finding the money to invest. :(
This actually
-
Keeping emotion out of it.
-
FICA, lack of diversity in investments in this lovely country of ours (No small cap index ETF for example) and saying NO to family members wanting to borrow money from me on a regular basis. I keep on telling them I am not a member of the Barclays group.
-
Not sure when to commit and literally missing the boat!! :-[
-
Stopping all non essential insurance products to clear money for investments
-
Deciding when to move money out of SA (if at all ever?).
-
Deciding when to move money out of SA (if at all ever?).
Why would you want to leave South Africa, it is one of the best places on the planet:
Rated on purchasing power, safety, climate, health care, traffic, property prices and pollution Cape Town is:
Better than London:
http://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/compare_cities.jsp?country1=South+Africa&country2=United+Kingdom&city1=Cape+Town&city2=London
Better than Canada:
http://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/compare_cities.jsp?country1=South+Africa&country2=Canada&city1=Cape+Town&city2=Toronto
Better than New Zealand:
http://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/compare_cities.jsp?country1=South+Africa&country2=New+Zealand&city1=Cape+Town&city2=Auckland
Better than Los Angeles:
http://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/compare_cities.jsp?country1=South+Africa&country2=United+States&city1=Cape+Town&city2=Los+Angeles%2C+CA
Better than Berlin, Germany:
http://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/compare_cities.jsp?country1=South+Africa&country2=Germany&city1=Cape+Town&city2=Berlin
Better than Ireland:
http://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/compare_cities.jsp?country1=South+Africa&country2=Ireland&city1=Cape+Town&city2=Dublin
Better than Hong Kong:
http://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/compare_cities.jsp?country1=South+Africa&country2=Hong+Kong&city1=Cape+Town&city2=Hong+Kong
Only very slightly worse than Australia:
http://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/compare_cities.jsp?country1=South+Africa&country2=Australia&city1=Cape+Town&city2=Perth
http://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/compare_cities.jsp?country1=South+Africa&country2=Australia&city1=Cape+Town&city2=Sydney
Overall Cape Town ranks 24th out of 184 cities. Not bad.
-
Deciding when to move money out of SA (if at all ever?).
Why would you want to leave South Africa, it is one of the best places on the planet:
Rated on purchasing power, safety, climate, health care, traffic, property prices and pollution Cape Town is:
I also quite like it here, but I'd like to travel too. Regardless of that though, I do think at least some of my money should leave at some point, but hopefully at a far better rate than we're seeing at the moment.
-
;)
-
Where did this infographic come from?
-
Sorry cannot remember, as I read I put important stuff for myself to read / remind me.
-
Deciding when to move money out of SA (if at all ever?).
Why would you want to leave South Africa, it is one of the best places on the planet:
Rated on purchasing power, safety, climate, health care, traffic, property prices and pollution Cape Town is:
I also quite like it here, but I'd like to travel too. Regardless of that though, I do think at least some of my money should leave at some point, but hopefully at a far better rate than we're seeing at the moment.
It's all very well say that SA is a great place to live. But when your wife/child says their car is broken down besides the freeway - the emotions that go though you are not the same others would feel in the same situation in other countries.
In the last three months, 2 for school friends fathers have been murdered in JHB - both obviously older guys, both in their homes. Another girls brother got badly beaten in a hi jacking. A lekker place to live UNTIL shit happens.
-
Deciding when to move money out of SA (if at all ever?).
Why would you want to leave South Africa, it is one of the best places on the planet:
Rated on purchasing power, safety, climate, health care, traffic, property prices and pollution Cape Town is:
I also quite like it here, but I'd like to travel too. Regardless of that though, I do think at least some of my money should leave at some point, but hopefully at a far better rate than we're seeing at the moment.
It's all very well say that SA is a great place to live. But when your wife/child says their car is broken down besides the freeway - the emotions that go though you are not the same others would feel in the same situation in other countries.
In the last three months, 2 for school friends fathers have been murdered in JHB - both obviously older guys, both in their homes. Another girls brother got badly beaten in a hi jacking. A lekker place to live UNTIL shit happens.
You have to put stuff into perspective. Yes, crime is very scary. We are human and we are designed to fear crime. How scary is obesity, smoking and driving? Fact is that obesity, smoking and driving is much more dangerous than all the crime in this country.
I don't know if you know this, but around half a million people die in South Africa every single year. This is completely normal and keeps the population stable. The vast majority of these deaths are due to illnesses, accidents and natural causes, not crime.
If the news reflected the actual risks for death, they would have to talk for 99 minutes about obesity, smoking, TB, driving accidents, etc and 1 minute about murders. Unfortunately it is the other way around.
-
I agree with you 100%, but I am a fanatic reader/and Dstv Crime channels of Serial killers and true crime (Wife is worried about it :whistle:).
They all ways, all ways in US start with, we never have crime in our "Dorp", bang some1 kills 12 people. Crap lock the doors, next episode " same sh$t, we never have crime, bang, some1 kills people. Lock the f^% doors.
One program a girl went missing, they got info that her body is in a certain part of woods. They found 2 bodies, not hers though. We have no crime but I just found 2 bodies and not 1 is the right 1... :question:
UK program - same we never have crime in our dorpie, but lady gets killed trying to get to panic button. You do not have crime but u have a panic button.
PS. RSA had some of the best Serial killer hunters in the past, US FBI when they did their profiling used to visit us to help sort the profiling. Also RSA is the only country that had a Serial killer who had 3 Profiles. And he never mixed the profiles, the FBI agent who did the Profiling has a Sowentan News paper on his wall in his study. His book "Journey into the Darkness" is of the worst Serial killers, most violent. Some scary sh&t.
-
Quiz, what is the scariest thing in South Africa?
From stats SA website:
Table 4.3: Number and percentage distribution of deaths by main groups of causes of death, 2013*
No. Main groups of underlying causes of death (based on ICD-10) Number Percentage
1 Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)* 103 708 (22,6%)
2 Neoplasms (C00-D48) 38 034 (8,3%)
3 Diseases of the blood and immune mechanism (D50-D89) 10 357 (2,3%)
4 Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E90) 28 974 (6,3%)
5 Mental and behavioural disorders (F00-F99) 1 787 (0,4%)
6 Diseases of the nervous system (G00-G99) 10 998 (2,4%)
7 Diseases of the eye and adnexa (H00-H59) 18 (0,0%)
8 Diseases of the ear and mastoid process (H60-H95) 58 (0,0%)
9 Diseases of the circulatory system (I00-I99) 76 468 (16,7%)
10 Diseases of the respiratory system (J00-J99) 47 695 (10,4%)
11 Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K93) 11 914 (2,6%)
12 Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (L00-L99) 826 (0,2%)
13 Diseases of the musculoskeletal system etc. (M00-M99) 1 513 (0,3%)
14 Diseases of the genitourinary system (N00-N99) 8 794 (1,9%)
15 Pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium (O00-O99) 946 (0,2%)
16 Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P00-P96) 9 508 (2,1%)
17 Congenital malformations (Q00-Q99) 1 966 (0,4%)
18 Symptoms and signs not elsewhere classified (R00-R99) 58 150 (12,7%)
19 External causes of morbidity and mortality (V01-Y98) 47 219 (10,3%)
Total 458 933 100,0
Answer:
-------------
Scariest thing in South Africa: Certain infectious and parasitic diseases
-
Quiz, what is the scariest thing in South Africa?
...
Answer:
-------------
Scariest thing in South Africa: Certain infectious and parasitic diseases
Are you talking about the President :D
-
Quiz, what is the scariest thing in South Africa?
...
Answer:
-------------
Scariest thing in South Africa: Certain infectious and parasitic diseases
Are you talking about the President :D
Maybe ;D