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Piggybanking – Preparing Your Financial Life for Kids and Your Kids for a Financial Life

5. April 2010

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Piggybanking by Jeff D. Opdyke is a definite must have book for any parent who wants to educate his or her children to successfully use and invest their money. It also assists newly weds and young parents to prepare for young children and the substantial changes that brings to their everyday financial lives. We all [...]

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13 Bankers – The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown

5. April 2010

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Though this blistering book identifies many causes of the recent financial crisis, from housing policy to minimum capital requirements for banks, the authors lay ultimate blame on a dominant deregulatory ideology and Wall Street’s corresponding political influence. Johnson, professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and Kwak, a former consultant for McKinsey, follow American [...]

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From Witblits to Vuvuzelas: Marketing in the New South Africa Dale Hefer

22. March 2010

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Founding director of Chillibush Communications (Pty) Ltd Dale Hefer started her company in 1998 as a one-woman show. Operating from a rented garage and using her boyfriend’s computer and money borrowed from her sister as start-up capital, Dale soon grew the business to the R1-million mark (just two years later, it was up to R18 [...]

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Understanding South African Financial Markets

21. March 2010

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The South African financial markets comprise a range of activities, participants and instruments. Conceptually, they are concerned with two principal sets of activities: the transfer and trading of money or other financial claims, and the transfer and trading of risk. Understanding South African financial markets provides a framework for classifying and analysing these markets within [...]

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Tax Havens Today – Benefits & Pitfalls of Banking & Investing Offshore

29. November 2009

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Filled with in-depth insight and expert advice, Tax Havens Today arms you with the knowledge, strategies, and contacts needed to avoid expensive mistakes and make the most of your offshore endeavors. Divided into four comprehensive parts, this timely resource will bring you completely up to speed on a variety of issues that anyone aspiring to [...]

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The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing by Jason Kelly

16. November 2009

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The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing follows the premise that people should invest because it allows people to own a piece of a successful company and the other that they have been the best investments over a certain period of time. Jason Kelly latest book is a must for any new investor looking [...]

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