Moneyweb Radio Be a Better Investor

Be a Better Investor

Moneyweb editor Ryk van Niekerk hosts the weekly 'Be a Better Investor' podcast to give both amateur and established retail investors a peek at how professional investors invest.
He chats to professional investors about their experiences in selecting potential investments, as well as how successful these processes have been. They discuss their biggest hits and misses and other topics, which may offer a few golden nuggets for listeners ... to become better investors.
Weekly English South Africa Investing · Business
200 Episodes
60 – 80

Simon Brown: Where it began ...

Podcast  |  Moneyweb Radio | Be a Better Investor
MoneywebNOW's host is the interviewee in this episode of Be a Better Investor. He explains when his love for investing started and how he picks his top stocks.
28 Aug 2022 24 min

You don't have to make money the same way your neighbour does

Podcast  |  Moneyweb Radio | Be a Better Investor
'It took me about 15 years to figure out that there's only one Buffett and that's Mr Buffet, and the rest of us have to invest in a way that suits your own personality': RECM CEO Jan van Niekerk.
29 Jul 2022 26 min

Don’t try to take profits too early

Podcast  |  Moneyweb Radio | Be a Better Investor
There are two kinds of money: bread-and-butter money and the yacht-and-caviar money – Viv Govender, wealth specialist at Rand Swiss.
28 May 2022 20 min

'Treat your investments like relationships'

Podcast  |  Moneyweb Radio | Be a Better Investor
‘The more you read, each day you are learning a little more – and I think it's very important to do that kind of reading. You learn about companies as well’: Investment rockstar David Shapiro – deputy chair, Sasfin.
20 May 2022 21 min

Dr Michael Jordaan steps out of the shadows

Podcast  |  Moneyweb Radio | Be a Better Investor
‘If you had to ask me to give one word of advice to all investors, it would be diversification...The worst thing that a tiny investor could do is put all their savings into just one counter’: Dr Michael Jordaan, former FNB CEO.
6 May 2022 23 min

‘Golden nuggets’ after 25/26 years in the small and midcap arena

Podcast  |  Moneyweb Radio | Be a Better Investor
Amateur retail investors in SA stocks which big asset managers ignore ‘simply do not have the...capacity to cover the near-100 stocks...in the small to midcap universe’: Small Talk Daily analyst Anthony Clark.
23 Apr 2022 25 min

Hit ratios, win-loss ratios, and shorting

Podcast  |  Moneyweb Radio | Be a Better Investor
‘Look for great companies to hold for the long term, but at the same time look for companies where something strange is going on …’: Jean Pierre Verster, Protea Asset Management.
14 Apr 2022 20 min

The small-cap sector, a really tough place to pick winners

Podcast  |  Moneyweb Radio | Be a Better Investor
‘Capitec [is] a good example of an excellent investment, bought for all the right reasons, held for the right reasons, and then sold because of a technicality’: Keith McLachlan of Integral Asset Managers.
8 Apr 2022 25 min

Beware of over-diversification

Podcast  |  Moneyweb Radio | Be a Better Investor
'If you've going to put together a portfolio, try to keep it quite narrow,' says Sanlam's Nick Kunze.
11 Mar 2022 18 min

The importance of ‘violence’ in a portfolio

Podcast  |  Moneyweb Radio | Be a Better Investor
‘You need to make up your own mind around whether what the market is seeing is correct, or the opposite. Sometimes it's very difficult’: Craig Gradidge of Gradidge Mahura.
5 Mar 2022 20 min

Don't get distracted or drawn in by the razzmatazz

Podcast  |  Moneyweb Radio | Be a Better Investor
If you are a long-term investor and want to buy something and hold it for at least three to five years, ‘trade ideas’ offers a good spot to start getting involved: Chantal Marx from FNB Private Wealth
26 Feb 2022 23 min

EasyEquities has disrupted the SA investment market since inception

Podcast  |  Moneyweb Radio | Be a Better Investor
The platform has revolutionised the industry by allowing fractional ownership. You don't need to buy one share. You can buy fractions of it. ‘For me investing is a team sport,’ says CEO Charles Savage.
19 Feb 2022 19 min

Venture capital and private equity – what's the difference?

Podcast  |  Moneyweb Radio | Be a Better Investor
Private equity looks for businesses generating free cashflow, and uses financial engineering to optimise returns in the business; venture capital is about building something which doesn't exist and turning it into something compelling’: Llewellyn Claasen from Newtown Partners
21 Nov 2021 18 min

Markets and music

Podcast  |  Moneyweb Radio | Be a Better Investor
Jacobus Brink
6 Nov 2021 20 min
60 – 80