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Consumers should spend cautiously, despite the positive outlook for the year
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Personal finance: sustainable budgeting tips to stretch your money in 2025

Consumers should spend cautiously, despite the positive outlook for the year

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Learn to love money, in order to attract abundance

Your guide to investing where your heart urges you to

Your guide to investing where your heart urges you to

Want to put your money in socially responsible listed companies? This is how the good, bad and ugly stack up.

When the worst happens

South Africans are feeling the effects of the ongoing financial crisis.

Coronation Fund Managers head of personal investments

Measuring fund manager skills

Think fund managers and names such as George Soros (whose 2013 earnings was in excess of $4-billion) and David Tepper ($3.5-billion) spring to mind.

Head of personal banking at Standard Bank

Creating achievable financial goals

Show yourself the money. Give yourself a sound financial future.

Arrie Rautenbach.

Can we ditch the plastic please?

Loyalty programmes may leave your wallet bulging, but mostly that’s going to be “bulging with loyalty cards”.

The key drivers of price growth in July were food and non-alcoholic beverages (up 5.7% and contributing 1.0 percentage points). Photo: Supplied

Save while you spend

The current economic situation facing South Africans seems dire.

South Africa’s economy expanded by 0.8% during the second quarter of 2025, following a marginal increase of 0.1% during the first quarter.

Higher interest rates predicted soon(ish)

The repo rate, the tool with which inflation can be managed, will not change for the next two months.

Rewards programmes revisited

Several petrol price hikes and one interest rate hike in the past few months have left most of us feeling a little tight around the wallet.

Moving money offshore

There are several issues that need to be pondered before deciding to check out of the JSE and go looking for more value in other markets.

Why 10c matters

Can pooling all your 10c together make a difference to your bank account in the long run?

An increase in tax-free retirement savings

The 2011 budget has put provident funds and retirement annuities in the spotlight.

Some balm for tax bites

Professional middle-income earners will feel the squeeze most.

Five ways to save this Christmas

Five ways to save this Christmas

Those who are lucky receive a 13th cheque, but most overspend and wake up to a New Year debt hangover.

Choosing a fund manager

Research on the subject is limited but there are several pointers you can use.

Financing your child’s education

The often crippling costs entailed in educating a child can be met with a little planning and forethought, writes <b>Sameerah Karolia</b>.

Save now for a secure future

If South Africa wants to enjoy sustained economic growth, we must address our woeful savings culture, writes <b>Gareth Stokes</b>.

Managing your banking fees

It is easier to complain about bank charges than to do something about them, writes Maya Fisher-French.

Lowering pension age ‘is a risky business’

It is surprising that South Africa has reduced the retirement age for men qualifying for the social old-age pension to 60.