tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-372219032024-03-20T10:35:13.088+02:00Let's be honestBlog for the independent mindedJaco du Plessishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04977466097137577852noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37221903.post-23929655251696768282011-11-08T15:41:00.000+02:002011-11-08T15:41:16.386+02:00[Suggestion] Keep your documents safe and secure this holiday at www.amedco.sharefile.comThere are numerous documents that, in essence, has little value to others, but great importance to you and becomes an instant nightmare in the event that it is lost, damaged or stolen.
We would like to make a suggestion. Let us explore some documents that might be important to you:
Copies of your ID document, Passport, Drivers License and Gun License. [Especially that copy of your Jaco du Plessishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04977466097137577852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37221903.post-27020179049860255932011-10-24T15:44:00.000+02:002011-10-24T15:44:58.241+02:00Amedco invites you to join TravelHippie.com on Facebook
Hi there!Amedco is proud to invite you to be part of a revolutionary project. It is called TravelHippie.com and if you have dreams to share, then TravelHippie.com is for you. For now, the actual site TravelHippie.com is under development, but that does not mean we cannot start having fun. What TravelHippie.com will be is still our secret, but suffice to say that anyone who feels betweenJaco du Plessishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04977466097137577852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37221903.post-52370752902746854602011-10-19T07:26:00.000+02:002011-10-19T07:26:58.668+02:00Starting on the wrong side of investingIn little less than two months from now, which will feel more like a couple of weeks due to an overdose of office parties and alcohol, South Africa will arrive to their annual economic stand-still. On the 15th of December, the traditional pilgrimage will start to holiday homes, over crowded caravan parks, under-capacity coastal shopping malls as well as blocked toll gates and highways.
ForJaco du Plessishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04977466097137577852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37221903.post-23550371664301681512011-01-07T15:24:00.000+02:002011-01-07T15:55:07.764+02:008 Easy ways to help you save R500p.m. for next year's vacationApart from losing weight and spending more time with the family, one popular resolution for many is to save more money. We think that while putting money away is a good idea, saving money with a particular goal in mind might be a better one.
And of all the things occupying your thoughts at the moment, that recent vacation, or lack thereof, might hold the key difference to a string of&Jaco du Plessishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04977466097137577852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37221903.post-18229597776286299052010-07-16T09:06:00.000+02:002010-07-16T09:14:23.143+02:00MISDAAD IN CENTURION
Ek is seker enige Suid-Afrikaner sal jou ure lank kan besig hou met staaltjies en stories van misdaad. In Afrika is dit omtrent so algemeen soos biltong en rugby. Verder sal ek bieg, was ek redelik vas oortuig dat meeste van die misdaad deur arm uitlanders en Nigeriese mafia-sindikate gepleeg word.
Hierdie week is ek egter stomgeslaan om vas te stel dat twee wit manne in alle waarskynlikheid Jaco du Plessishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04977466097137577852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37221903.post-62384115105391058682010-04-21T14:10:00.000+02:002010-04-21T14:10:45.592+02:00Documentary of Warren Buffet
You all know that I am a big fan of Mr. Warren Buffet. He’s investment rules are simple to understand but nevertheless tough to follow. Many however, would not read through the 900 odd pages of his biography, ‘The Snowball: Warren Buffet and the business of life’ written by Alice Schroeder.
Fortunate there is now is an effortless option. Evan Davis of the BBC has produced a short film Jaco du Plessishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04977466097137577852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37221903.post-35340611695908876272010-03-11T16:45:00.000+02:002010-03-11T16:52:03.219+02:00Warren Buffet's 2010 Letter to Shareholders
This is one of the "must read's" of the year.
The Annual Letter to Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway written by Warren Buffet.
The 2010 letter was just released and if you have never treated yourself to this well written and easy to understand annual report by the world's now 3rd wealthiest individual, is the time.
It is 19 pages, with financial stuff here and there but worth the Jaco du Plessishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04977466097137577852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37221903.post-83100123500435807022010-03-11T15:24:00.000+02:002010-03-11T15:39:01.822+02:00The World's Richest, and it's not BillAn interesting week if you had your eye on being the wealthiest person in the world. Only for the 2nd time since 1995, Bill Gates is not at the top of the annual Forbes' list of richest , released this morning.
Carlos Slim, Mexican telecoms tycoon came in at number one. He's net worth is a staggering $53.5 billion.
Bill is not that far behind at $53 billion. Only $500 million separates him and Jaco du Plessishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04977466097137577852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37221903.post-79663388071934134572009-09-18T08:56:00.000+02:002010-03-10T19:22:01.300+02:00It is all about the return
Until we delisted from the find an advisor website, we were annoyed with phone calls from asset managers nearly every week. Excluding the Namibian funds, an investor have close to 700 funds to choose from, according to Morningstar.
The list is available on the Amedco website.
Each fund on the Morningstar list have their year-to-date, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months, two year, three yearsJaco du Plessishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04977466097137577852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37221903.post-84366445448486807472009-09-04T07:21:00.000+02:002010-03-10T20:13:56.551+02:00Who will be in Majorca?
This week I received two warnings. The first from Chubb Security Services, advising me not to flash at vehicles with no headlights. It might be a gang who will turn around and kill me. The other (if I can recall) from homeland security, advising me not to open Michael Jackson e-mail as it may be a computer virus.
These e-mails are well intended, sent by concerned friends. The odds of occurrence?Jaco du Plessishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04977466097137577852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37221903.post-27252014665215476692009-07-30T15:20:00.000+02:002010-03-10T20:29:50.862+02:00Dear Mr. Jacob ZumaDid you notice that The President of the United States happens to be a black guy?That is right. I am playing the race card in the first sentence of this open letter to you and now that it's out of the way, I can get right to the crux of the matter, hopefully, without being labelled a racist.The reason I am writing to you is to discuss the single biggest problem in South Africa and to compare yourJaco du Plessishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04977466097137577852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37221903.post-39073901458977515392009-07-17T08:45:00.000+02:002010-03-10T20:30:53.380+02:00Spaar: 'n Riemtelegraaf
As dit nie vir Allan Gray was nie, het ek ook nie geweet dat Julie Spaar-maand in Suid-Afrika is nie. Blykbaar, is daar ook iets soos die Suid Afrikaanse Spaar Instituut. Dit is egter te verstane dat die Oktoberfest meer betekenis het as Bewahrenzeit as jy na die syfers kyk.
Suid-Afrika Spaar Nie
In 'n onlangse uitgawe van GrayIssue, skryf Rob Formby van Allan Gray Bate Bestuurders dat die Jaco du Plessishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04977466097137577852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37221903.post-1267647207905850432009-07-10T08:36:00.000+02:002010-03-10T20:32:31.631+02:00The Greater DepressionWhat new research is showing us This week I received an interesting e-mail from Chris Botha of Stanlib Asset Managers. It was an astonishing chart that compare the World Industrial Output between the Great Depression of 1929 and our current state of affairs that started in April 2008.
I simply could not believe the similarities and set out to search for the source.
The authors of this chart Jaco du Plessishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04977466097137577852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37221903.post-37327511058817757922009-07-03T12:43:00.000+02:002010-03-10T20:33:38.058+02:00The Hot Hand FallacyAnd how asset managers may mislead you.
Can you predict on which side the coin will fall looking at the following sequence: Heads (H) or Tails (T)HHH TTT HHH TT? or HTH TTH THH TH?Most people may erroneously believe that the coin in the first sequence will land on tails. This is a very wrong assumption. The fact is that it appears as a sequence, but is actually just as random as the second Jaco du Plessishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04977466097137577852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37221903.post-72598404822110361892009-06-19T13:00:00.001+02:002010-03-10T20:34:34.631+02:00Less (hindsight) is more (profit)
This is the third article in our series on Investor Psychology. It is loosely based on research done by Daniel Kahneman (Ph.D) who published "Aspects on Investor Psychology" in 1998 as well as other interesting finds on the subject.
It is well documented that people can rarely reconstruct what they thought was going to happen just before the event occurred. Most people exaggerate their earlier Jaco du Plessishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04977466097137577852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37221903.post-71239743873016501872009-06-18T11:44:00.000+02:002010-03-10T20:35:09.440+02:00It's all in the mind - part II
Optimism
In the previous post I wrote about overconfidence. Another aspect that influences investor behavior, and closely related to overconfidence, is optimism.
How good driver are you compared to others on the road?
The research by Kahneman (Aspects of Investor Psychology by Daniel Kahneman, PhD) and other articles I found on the Internet, suggests an overwhelmingly percentage (80%) of people Jaco du Plessishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04977466097137577852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37221903.post-80575873291244061882007-01-16T11:14:00.000+02:002007-01-16T23:48:02.680+02:00Quote of the year“Bob has been smart to shop his situation around to several planners, ... Yet in doing so, he has become further confused in realizing that financial planning is more an art than a science.” Marc FreedmanJaco du Plessishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04977466097137577852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37221903.post-17710806994474255142007-01-07T02:49:00.000+02:002010-03-10T20:28:34.356+02:00Wanneer laas was jy in Durban?Ek was 10 jaar laas in Durban. As ek Natal toe kom, haas ek my na die huurmotor en jaag verwoed na 'n beskaafde plek soos Umhlanga
Toe iemand my so paar jaar gelede se dat hy 'n woonstel in Durban gekoop het, het ek byna in my bier verstik.
Die enigste beeld wat ek van Durban gesien het, is jaar-na-jaar op die 8uur nuus van 1 Januarie.
Dan wys die TV gewoonlik hoe daar triljoene op Durban se Jaco du Plessishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04977466097137577852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37221903.post-80691470892549380862006-11-08T08:54:00.000+02:002006-11-08T21:20:39.263+02:00Wat is 'n wereld-inkomste?Ek het nog altyd gewonder wat is die inkomste van burgers in eerste wereld lande.Die burgers van lande in Europa en die VSA het tog 'n lekker lewe! Een van die opvallendste dinge wat ek in die buiteland opgemerk het is die tydperk wat verloop tussen sogenaamde "refurbishment" van geboue.Niks word toegelaat op oud te word nie! (behalwe die gebou wat reeds oud is). Ek het baie gesien hoe hulle Jaco du Plessishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04977466097137577852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37221903.post-1162818984476171902006-11-06T14:42:00.000+02:002006-11-06T22:06:07.283+02:00Die ongemaklike waarheidEk kan nie glo dat daar iets is soos eerlike politici nie, maar dit lyk my Al Gore, die Amerikaanse Demokraat, wil aanspraak maak op die status.Hy speel die hoofrol in 'n film oor aardverwarming: An Inconvenient Truth.Dit wys tans by die Cinema Nouveau in Brooklyn.Gaan kyk dit!Ek dink almal moet weet wat die mens besig is om aan te vang met Die Planeet. Die film het 'n Jaco du Plessishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04977466097137577852noreply@blogger.com