Be a Better Investor

‘With long-only you have a blunt hammer in your toolbox … whereas in a hedge fund, you have a whole array of tools’ – Jonathan du Toit, Oyster Catcher founder and CEO.

‘If you want to buy because you think somebody else will be greedier than you, you really have to hope they're a bigger fool than you are’: Madalet Sessions – Denker Capital.

‘You can see a time when the equivalent of ChatGPT takes market dynamics, interprets them and invests your money’ – Hywel George, Old Mutual.

Some people don't understand how much a rand is worth, and I think that's where a lot of people destroy value: Kagisho Mahura, director at Gradidge-Mahura Investments.

And having 15 to 30 shares does not in itself give you diversification because they could all be dancing to the same song – it's about finding ideas that are attractively priced but uncorrelated to each other: Iain Power, CIO at Truffle Asset Management.

Investment is very much about delayed gratification, says STANLIB CEO Derrick Msibi.

Investors need to wrap their heads around the fact that expecting dramatic positive outcomes over shorter time horizons comes with a lot of risk of getting things wrong: Foord Asset Management investment professional Linda Eedes.

Langa Manqele’s story demonstrates that long-term investing is probably easier and more profitable for new investors than high-risk speculation.

Momentum CIO Mike Adsetts talks diversification, maximised growth and his alternative approach to retirement savings.

Use downturns to buy shares – even a basket of the worst-performing shares: Lonwabo Maqubela of Perpetua Investment Managers.

‘The small and mid cap space remains for me the most exciting area of the market’: Vanessa van Vuuren, Sanlam Investment Management.

From Diagonal Street and being ‘almost like a gunslinger type of trader’ to being ‘humbled’ by the markets and developing patience: Patrick Mathidi of Aluwani Capital Partners shares his investment insights.

Omri Thomas of Abax Investments offers advice to young investors who would like to get a foothold in the markets and build long-term wealth.

The one decision I made myself was the worst decision in my 33 years as an investor: Jeanette Marais, CEO of Momentum Metropolitan.

And ‘you do not need a very high hit ratio to be successful’: Drikus Combrinck, founder and CEO of Capicraft Investment Partners.