Share Forum - Discuss JSE shares and join the Investor Challenge

So looking through the MYBB group I checked all the public profiles and saw that ETF's where scarce and if they where present they where less than 20% of the portfolio. As a big fan of ETF's as a diversified way to invest I am purchasing only ETF's and seeing how I compare against the MYBB board. Not sure how it will work out for me as yet but I would not be surprised if I end the year in the top 20% of the group taking the low risk diversified approach instead of betting on a handful of individual companies. So lets see how it plays out.

There's a lot of ETFs out there, so you're still picking, you're just picking a basket. I've been happily holding the satrix indi for some time now, and it's beaten just about every fund manager out. Whether it will continue to is the question.

This competition is about the 'top performers', and that's most likely to be the person who makes the best bet on an individual company (or two).  In reality I wouldn't be that foolish.  I would (and do) stick to ETFs.  But seeing as this is just a game, it's all about "the punt" and I don't mind just throwing my money on a company like I would on a race horse.

Perhaps. Although it is called the "Investor" challenge and not the trading challenge. Either way I will be interested to see how I perform vs the pickers and choosers and what that says about the different techniques.

There's a lot of ETFs out there, so you're still picking, you're just picking a basket. I've been happily holding the satrix indi for some time now, and it's beaten just about every fund manager out. Whether it will continue to is the question.

Good choice. I have always recommended STXIND to people that don't have time to watch their portfolio every day. The day I retire I will transfer all my pension into it and only check up on it after my fishing trips. It has been the least volatile and best performing STX of all and doing 30%+. UT managers would love to get the same gains.
Tip. Buy it via a broker on the JSE and not on the Satrix website. Cheaper and you can sell at a click of a button if needed.

Just a question, are dividends being paid out into our accounts? Been in a while and I have not seen any dividends yet and both my indices normally pay out divi's quarterly???

Dividends and Interest minus tax gets paid in to your trading account. On my STXIND i was paid i think
beginning July for 2nd quarter, about 1% annually.
Usually there is a SENS out of payment dates.

Divi, interest and foreign divi were paid July 11th in to my trading account