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Medical Aid Rates for 2018
Each new year the Medical Aids announce their new Medical Aid Rates For 2018 rates and many changes, and once again you are faced with making the right decision for cover for your entire family. With 2018 rapidly approaching medical aid companies are sending out the notices that their subscribers have been waiting for (with […] Read More
Cut Risk and Get Gap Cover Today
Cut Risks to Your Health and Wealth- Get Gap Cover Today. Is there ever a good time to be hospitalized for illness or injury? Do we need to even ask that question? Of course not. However, if you are all paid up with a good medical aid at least you won’t have to worry […] Read More
Understanding the Magic of Compound Interest
Understanding the Magic of Compound Interest early on in your investing life will offer a tremendous impact on your long term wealth plans. Do you know what compound interest is, and how it actually works? In the most basic of terms it is interest earning interest. For instance, let’s imagine that last year you banked […] Read More
Smart Medical Aid Choices
Smart Medical Aid Choices includes choosing some form of health coverage, in reality, every South African knows. Sometimes, unfortunately having learned the hard way, after being hit with a slew of hefty medical bills after an unexpected illness or injury. Knowing something and acting on it are often two different things though. All too often […] Read More
Momentum Multiply vs Discovery Vitality
Momentum Multiply vs Discovery Vitality are two of the top reward extras attached to popular Medical Schemes. When choosing between them consumers are increasingly considering the ‘extras’ attached to the medical aid schemes they are comparing, in the form of medical aid reward programs. In a nutshell, medical aid reward programs are designed to encourage […] Read More
Should You Invest in Cryptocurrencies?
Should You Invest in Cryptocurrencies? You may have heard that cryptocurrencies are a particularly hot commodity at the moment, with the best known of them, Bitcoin. Bitcoin rising in value to record levels recently, and smaller, lesser known alternatives like Ethereum performing better as well. You may also have heard that had you made an […] Read More
How to Invest in an Unstable Economy
Knowing ‘How to Invest in an Unstable Economy‘ is crucial if you want to make it through rocky times. However clever and well-versed a person is in all things financial it is impossible to be 100% infallible in attempting to predict what might be a good or bad investment. If an economy is also rather […] Read More
Do You Have a Financial Future?
Do You Have a Financial Future? Or is that something you try not to think about? I know you start off every month by vowing to make a better effort to save more of your paycheque? And you probably you plan to start saving for retirement soon, or to create an emergency fund but never […] Read More
Which Tax-Free Investment Account?
Which Tax-Free Investment Account? Which one is right for you? What do you Know about Tax Free Investment Accounts? Did you know that ever since March 2015, the average South African has been afforded the chance to invest up to R30 000 a year – around R2 500 a month – in a tax-free investment […] Read More