Be a Better Investor

Moneyweb editor Ryk van Niekerk hosts the weekly 'Be a Better Investor' podcast to give both amateur and established retail investors a peek at how professional investors invest.
He chats to professional investors about their experiences in selecting potential investments, as well as how successful these processes have been. They discuss their biggest hits and misses and other topics, which may offer a few golden nuggets for listeners ... to become better investors.

Weekly English South Africa Business Ryk van Niekerk

184 Episodes

40 – 60

Gyongyi King's 'watch-and-learn' investment strategy

AlexForbes's CIO chats her first stock pick, how to spot a fad and the biggest mistakes retail investors should avoid.

12 Nov 2022 13 min

Investing: ‘Just do it', says Anthea Gardner

The managing partner of Cartesian Capital says a lot of platforms allow one to invest with very little money.

22 Oct 2022 22 min

Every day you’re making a conscious decision to keep a share

Anchor Capital CEO Peter Armitage.

16 Oct 2022 21 min

Success comes from grit and going where few are willing to tread

Petri Redelinhuys’s mantra is to let other people who are better at specific things than you are do what they're best at, while you focus on other things: Petri Redelinghuys – Herenya Capital Advisors.

2 Oct 2022 23 min

Simon Brown: Where it began ...

MoneywebNOW's host is the interviewee in this episode of Be a Better Investor. He explains when his love for investing started and how he picks his top stocks.

28 Aug 2022 24 min

You don't have to make money the same way your neighbour does

'It took me about 15 years to figure out that there's only one Buffett and that's Mr Buffet, and the rest of us have to invest in a way that suits your own personality': RECM CEO Jan van Niekerk.

29 Jul 2022 26 min

Don't harm yourself with emotional perspectives: Hlelo Giyose

First Avenue Investment Management's founder and CIO offers insight into his investment journey and explains why he made it his career.

1 Jul 2022 24 min

True value investing allows a trusted share its ups and downs

John Biccard of Ninety One explains his long-term investing philosophy, citing his experiences with Impala, Tiger Brands and Cashbuild in particular.

11 Jun 2022 25 min

'In a lot of spaces the long term is your best friend'

Cannon Asset Managers's CIO Tshepo Modiba talks his biggest investment wins and mistakes and how he picks his shares.

4 Jun 2022 16 min

Don’t try to take profits too early

There are two kinds of money: bread-and-butter money and the yacht-and-caviar money – Viv Govender, wealth specialist at Rand Swiss.

28 May 2022 20 min

'Treat your investments like relationships'

‘The more you read, each day you are learning a little more – and I think it's very important to do that kind of reading. You learn about companies as well’: Investment rockstar David Shapiro – deputy chair, Sasfin.

20 May 2022 21 min

Dr Michael Jordaan steps out of the shadows

‘If you had to ask me to give one word of advice to all investors, it would be diversification...The worst thing that a tiny investor could do is put all their savings into just one counter’: Dr Michael Jordaan, former FNB CEO.

6 May 2022 23 min

‘Golden nuggets’ after 25/26 years in the small and midcap arena

Amateur retail investors in SA stocks which big asset managers ignore ‘simply do not have the...capacity to cover the near-100 stocks...in the small to midcap universe’: Small Talk Daily analyst Anthony Clark.

23 Apr 2022 25 min

Hit ratios, win-loss ratios, and shorting

‘Look for great companies to hold for the long term, but at the same time look for companies where something strange is going on …’: Jean Pierre Verster, Protea Asset Management.

14 Apr 2022 20 min

The small-cap sector, a really tough place to pick winners

‘Capitec [is] a good example of an excellent investment, bought for all the right reasons, held for the right reasons, and then sold because of a technicality’: Keith McLachlan of Integral Asset Managers.

8 Apr 2022 25 min

Beware of over-diversification

'If you've going to put together a portfolio, try to keep it quite narrow,' says Sanlam's Nick Kunze.

11 Mar 2022 18 min

The importance of ‘violence’ in a portfolio

‘You need to make up your own mind around whether what the market is seeing is correct, or the opposite. Sometimes it's very difficult’: Craig Gradidge of Gradidge Mahura.

5 Mar 2022 20 min

Don't get distracted or drawn in by the razzmatazz

If you are a long-term investor and want to buy something and hold it for at least three to five years, ‘trade ideas’ offers a good spot to start getting involved: Chantal Marx from FNB Private Wealth

26 Feb 2022 23 min

EasyEquities has disrupted the SA investment market since inception

The platform has revolutionised the industry by allowing fractional ownership. You don't need to buy one share. You can buy fractions of it. ‘For me investing is a team sport,’ says CEO Charles Savage.

19 Feb 2022 19 min

Old Mutual Private Client Securities’ investment philosophy

Chief investment officer Dr Andrew Dittberner says, ‘if you're going to panic, you need to be the first to panic – and that’s the Steinhoff story’.

11 Feb 2022 20 min