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Welcome To  the Personal Finance Podcast show with me Content Editor Ruan Jooste. This is our monthly financial planning episode for the month of January , and we are unpacking the differenceS between investment platforms and asset manageNT. I have Rainier van der Nest in studio as my guest and he is A business development manager at Glacier by Sanlam.

Welcome To  the Personal Finance’s Podcast show with me Content Editor Ruan Jooste. This is our January Pension Plain episode and the first for the year, where  we cover retirement everything, everyone, and everywhere. Last year we covered Pension Fund reform, and the tax implications thereof, and spoke to the Pension fund Adjudicator on her office’s annual report, and today we will be t...

Welcome to the Personal Finance Podcast show, where we show that money matters. I am your host,  Content Editor Ruan Jooste and this is your monthly Pension Plain episode for December, and our last show for 2022. Today we are joined by David Hurford, CEO of Fairheads benefit services, an independent administrator and service provider to the retirement and fiduciary industries across the count...

Welcome to the Personal Finance Podcast show, where we show that money matters. I am your Host, Content Editor Ruan Jooste and this is your monthly Financial Planning episode. Today we are joined by a special guest, Kiru Padayachee, Business manager at Glacier by Sanlam, a wealth creation and preservation platform, and Kiru is here to help talk us through some of the investment opportunities for p...

Welcome To Personal Finance’s Podcast show with Content Editor Ruan Jooste. This is our Tax Talk episode for December, the monthly feature where we talk about everything tax, laws, and red tape. In this episode, we cover the recent ban on scrap metals and copper waste exports, and how it will affect crime, small businesses, and informal collectors. We are joined by the Founder and CEO of XA Global...

The Richards Bay Industrial Development Zone (RBIDZ) is KZN's Special Economic Zone for sustainable quality investments, world-class industrial infrastructure and attracting local and foreign investors. Recently, as part of commemorating his 100 days in office and beyond, RBIDZ hosted leader of government business and MEC for Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs (EDTEA), Si...

Welcome To the Personal Finance’s Podcast show with me Content Editor Ruan Jooste. This is our Pension Plain episode for the month of November, where we cover retirement everything, everyone, and everywhere. This week the 14th annual Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index - MCGPI - for short was released, which is a comprehensive study of 44 global pension systems, accounting for 65 percent of...

Welcome To  the Personal Finance Podcast show with me Content Editor Ruan Jooste. This is our monthly financial planning episode, and we are talking about Education. We all understand the value of a good education, and that we want to provide our children - or even ourselves - with the best possible skills for the future. But with the rising cost of secondary and tertiary education, which can...

Welcome to the Personal Finance Podcast show with me content editor - Ruan Jooste. This is our final episode of the 4-part tax series, during the month of October and November, in collaboration with the South African Institute of Taxation, or Sait for short. Today we talk about the impact of auto-assessment on the filing of individual tax returns.  My usual guest is Keith Engel, CEO of Sait a...

Welcome to the Personal Finance Podcast show with me content editor - Ruan Jooste. This is the third episode of our 4-part series, during the month of October, in collaboration with the South African Institute of Taxation, or Sait for short. Governments around the world are using sustainability tax measures to reduce emissions, meet their commitments on carbon neutrality and tackle climate change,...

In our second instalment of our four episode Tax Month series, in collaboration with the South African Institute of Tax Practitioners, or SAIT for short, we will be unpacking Research and Development Incentives - or R&D as the bean counters refer to it .

Welcome To  the Personal Finance’s Podcast show with me, Content Editor Ruan Jooste. This is our Pension Plain episode for the month of October, where we cover pension everything, everyone, and everywhere. The financial services dispute resolution landscape is being radically reshaped to ensure a consistent framework across the financial services sector whilst providing for quick and cost-eff...

In this first episode of African Talk, host Shifaan Ryklief speaks to liberation struggle war veteran and former member of the Pan African Parliament, Pandelani Nefolovhodwe; political analyst Kim Heller and a former journalist and corporate strategist, Oupa Ngwenya. We take a closer look at media freedom in South Africa and dive into what unfolded in 1977 when certain publications were banned.

Welcome to the Personal Finance Podcast show with me content editor - Ruan Jooste. This is the first episode of a 4-part series, during the month of October, in collaboration with the South African Institute of Taxation, or Sait for short, which we famously dubbed Tax Month, as we will not only see the Medium-Term Budget Review be presented in parliament on the 26th, but also have various Tax amen...

Welcome To Personal Finance’s  Podcast show with Content Editor Ruan Jooste. It is the Financial Planning episode for the month of October, and we are discussing delays in winding up deceased estates, especially in lieu of the long delays at the Master of the High Court in South Africa at the moment.  Find this podcast on IOL HERE

In this first episode of African Talk, host Chad Williams speaks to Clement Summerton from Operation Hunger South Africa who explains the causes of hunger in South Africa and the steps the NGO has taken to combat the crisis.

A key feature of the invoice-credit form of value-added tax, in short referred to as VAT is that some businesses will pay more tax on their purchases than is due on their sales, and so can seek refunds of excess credits from the South African Revenue Service - but while e refunding is straightforward in principle, serious problems arise in practice, including opportunities for fraud and corruption...

In our third episode, since our launch at the beginning of September, we discuss pensions, whether product, policy or platform, and which we here at Personal Finance officially dubbed the Pension Plain episode, where we break down all the retirement reforms, paperwork forms, and red tape rig-ma-roll into digestible portions for the average joe, the man on the street and the layman like myself. Fin...

In this episode your host, Ruan Jooste talks about when, how and why money matters and all the details that go along with setting up your will. Find this Podcast on IOL HERE

Tax Talk with Ruan Jooste is a monthly podcast that tax about tax, laws and all the red tape. This show is proudly brought to you by IOL Personal Finance.  Find the Podcast on IOL HERE

More resources are needed to support gender-based violence survivors as the Covid-19 pandemic shrunk the pool of available resources, People Opposing Women Abuse (POWA) said. POWA is calling on survivors from across the country to #DonateYourVoice and tell their individual stories of survival, to demystify the faces and voices behind the statistics. POWA, in partnership with JOKO are once again ma...

The impact of technology in the accountancy profession. - BizTech Talks, Wesley Diphoko hosted a discussion with South African Institute of Professional Accountants senior members, Faith Ngwenya - SAIPA Executive Technical & Standards and  Prof Small who heads up SAIPAs Centre of Future Excellence.

Mandela Day is upon us, and for most South Africans, that means it’s time to dedicate a day or 67 minutes to helping others.

In the fourth in a series of four podcasts on investing, in partnership with Alexander Forbes Investments, the company's head of alternative investments, David Moore, chats to Martin Hesse about this class of investments.

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