With over 30 years of experience in the banking and home loan industry, my hope it is share what I have learnt over the years with my blogging community, inspire conversation around the subject and in the process discover unique insights into this ever changing environment.
Hard to believe half the year has flown by! It has been loaded with politics including a national election and the finalisation of parliament, economic data for the first quarter that sucks at -3.2% GDP growth, SOEs’ revelations every day that boggle the mind, defamation claims that seem to have become lawfare, and emigration statistics […]
This blog covers a few interesting aspects of property ownership and investment. Hope you enjoy the read. Renting has always been an option. For some, it is the only option given their inability to afford a bond but it is also for some an ownership alternative and lifestyle choice. In a recent [5 June 2019] […]
As my first blog after the LIFE series, I need to be careful of my mood. It could influence the way I present myself. On 2 May, ABSA published its Home Ownership Sentiment and it has made interesting reading amongst other documents that flow across my desk. It has found itself sandwiched between four important […]
Second last article in the LIFE series and now I’m going to discuss entrepreneurship with entrepreneurs. Yes, you and you…….. If your job includes: Setting up a business in the hope of making a profit, then you are an entrepreneur. I would put to you that every bond originator, estate agent, principal or a plethora […]
At last, you say, he’s on the final letter of LIFE! Sorry for you. But, more seriously, I have enjoyed writing these blogs amidst the doom and gloom of our beautiful, tortured country and its property market that’s in the consequent doldrums. Keeping ourselves motivated and humoured is probably more important than the energy that […]
It would be worth my while to write two blogs on this subject, but I didn’t think that was necessary for my readers. Fact is, we all have experienced that unless these two things hang together, it is very difficult to actually fulfil either. Before I go, there a few unrelated things: So good that […]
Below is an article sent to me by a dear friend. He knows me well in this area and lives through many of the battles of faith vs commonsense that I traverse regularly, in fact, more regularly these days. I make this point right at the beginning so as to avoid any sense of hypocrisy […]
I love fat people. Cuddly, happy, smiling and always ready to help… Oops! Wrong start to the blog on LIFE and the “F” in the acronym 😊 Let’s start again, but before we do, I must tell you a story. Once I went to Lyons Wholesalers, across the road from the Wits Business School. I […]
Good to be writing again after a hectic March so far. Life’s busy, hey?….even in Hermanus. Following on from Investment, Inspiration and Imagination in our LIFE series, we start with “F” in our acronym. Like Rights have Responsibilities, Freedom has boundaries. Sorry to burst your bubble, especially those of you Baby Boomers who still think […]
Shew, this month has been hectic! Yours as well? We’re on the last of our three blogs on the “I” of the acronym, LIFE. So far, we have covered Live, Laugh and Love. Then Imagination and Inspiration – that was a tome as I re-read it 😊 Today, we’ll cover Investment and I promise it […]