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May

Monthly Update

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How does inflation impact the value of your investment? Most investors know about inflation. Everyone experiences inflation on a personal level when we see the average price level of goods and services rise every year. We also understand that the Real value of capital decreases by inflation every year. Although we experience it on an […]

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11
Jan

Monthly Update

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We would like to wish all of our clients a safe & prosperous 2021. Click the link to view our monthly Newsletter Summary – December ’20 Monthly Market & Fund Update    

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21
Oct

Investment guidelines to see you through the crisis

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Bouts of market volatility may be unsettling but they are an unavoidable feature of long-term investing. The important thing is to avoid making mistakes along the way. These investment guidelines hold true for any environment, but they’re particularly useful to keep in mind during times of extreme volatility. Here are six investment guidelines to keep […]

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02
Jul

Financial Freedom : from surviving to thriving

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Most South Africans say they are experiencing anxiety (55%) and nearly half are dealing with financial pressure (46%) and/or depression (40%) during the lockdown, according to a recent online survey by the South African Depression and Anxiety Group (SADAG). With the bleak economic forecast and retrenchments or pay cuts on the cards for many South […]

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12
May

April Newsletter

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Monthly Market & Fund Update Markets bounced back sharply during April on the back of positive news. Many countries started to relax lockdown restrictions and positive signs from China’s economy restored some hope that the impact from COVID 19 will be shorter lived than initially expected. April saw the 5th best month for the MSCI […]

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12
May

Monthly Reporting

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a Note from the Salvo Team As you know, we send out monthly investment statements to all of our investors. We are happy to announce that we will be sending A New Format of statements with a look and feel that will contain more relevant information, starting in May 2020. These statements will be sent […]

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14
Apr

What to do in a crisis

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A man named Rahm Emanuel once said: “Never let a serious crisis go to waste”. What does this quote mean for investor’s? True investment opportunities seldomly occurs when asset prices are at all time highs. The real buying opportunity comes when assets are “on sale”, as Warren Buffet loves to say. These “sales” occur when […]

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22
Oct

a lesson from steady investors

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Women outperform men by 1.8% when it comes to investment performance, according to a 2018 study by the Warwick Business School. The study tracked 2 800 investors’ behaviour and investment returns for three years. It found that women investors not only outperformed the FTSE 100 during that period, they also outshone their male counterparts. While annual […]

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18
Sep

The ins and outs of offshore investing

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Considering South Africa’s stock market represents only around 1% of the world’s total listed equity market capitalisation, having some offshore equity exposure is a logical choice – otherwise you are missing out on 99% of the available opportunities, and some fantastic ones at that. However, studies have found that investors in both developed and emerging […]

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29
Jan

The Snowball Effect

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A century ago Albert Einstein shook the foundations of our understanding of the universe when his theories of relativity changed the way we think about space and time. His theories reframed time as a relative and subjective experience. Although science may now think differently about time, our everyday experience continues to tick over in a […]

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