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July 24, 2020

Personal Investing

Listed property sector – REITS in South Africa

“A regular company makes profit and pays taxes on its entire profit. There-after, the decision is made as to how to
allocate after-tax profits between dividends and reinvestment. A REIT simply distributes all of its profits and gets to skip
the taxation”

Personal Investing

The pitfalls of emotional investing

Since investors rarely behave according to financial and economic theory, behavioural finance has grown over the past twenty years. Most investors know that emotion affects the way in which investment decisions are made – and that greed and fear play a large role in driving investment markets.