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I'm not going to repost it again: http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/824165-So-an-interesting-thing-happened-to-me-on-Easy-Equities ...but basically, the moment I'm able to move I'm done with them. I'll stick around for single shares, possibly for their international shares (if that ever happens) and speculating, but anything more substantial and important I'm moving away.

1. Login to EasyEquities/[whatever platform you use] 2. Switch to TFSA account 3. Invest -> Companies ? Ashburton Inflation ETF (ASHINF) Ashburton Mid Cap ETF (ASHMID) Ashburton Top 40 ETF (ASHT40) Coreshares Divtrax ETF (DIVTRX) CoreShares Green ETF (CGREEN) Coreshares LowVol Trax ETF (LVLTRX) Coreshares Preftrax ETF (PREFTX) Coreshares Proptrax Sapy ETF (PTXSPY) Coreshares Proptrax Ten ETF (PTXTEN) CoreShares Top 40 Equally Weighted ETF (CSEW40) Coreshares Top50 ETF (CTOP50) DB X-Trackers Col in Japan ETF (DBXJP) DB X-Trackers Col in USA EF (DBXUS) DB X-Trackers Col in WLD ETF (DBXWD) DB X-Trackers DJ Euro Stoxx 50 ETF (DBXEU) Db X-Trackers FTSE 100 ETF (DBXUK) Erafi Overall SA Index ETF (RAFISA) Erafi SA Financial 15 Idx ETF (RAFFIN) Erafi SA Industrial 25 Idx ETF (RAFIND) Erafi SA Resource 20 Idx ETF (RAFRES) Mapps Protect (MAPPSP) Newfunds Equity Momentum ETF (NFEMOM) Newfunds Govi ETF (NFGOVI) Newfunds Ilbi ETF (NFILBI) Newfunds Mapps Growth ETF (MAPPSG) Newfunds NewSA Index ETF (NEWFSA) NewFunds S&P GIVI SA Financial 15 Index (GIVFIN) NewFunds S&P GIVI SA Industrial 25 Index (GIVIND) NewFunds S&P GIVI SA Resource 15 Index (GIVRES) NewFunds S&P GIVI SA Top 50 Index (GIVISA) Newfunds Shariah To40 ETF (NFSH40) Newfunds Swix 40 ETF (NFSWIX) Newfunds TRACI 3 Month ETF (NFTRCI) Satrix Divi Plus (STXDIV) Satrix Fini (STXFIN) Satrix Indi (STXIND) Satrix Rafi 40 (STXRAF) Satrix Resi (STXRES) Satrix Swix 40 (STXSWX) Satrix Top 40 (STX40) Stanlib SA Property ETF (STPROP) Stanlib Swix40 ETF (STANSX) Stanlib Top40 ETF (STAN40) EDIT:

Really? NFSWIX up by 4.621% DIVTRX up by 0.91% Only thing on my side in the red is NEP which is taking another beating. Down 1.25%. Fscking BREXIT "fears"

Back on the 6th for sentencing

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Me likey....now for the profile pic

The only real downside of using Bloomberg is that the mobile app only allows you to view the Mobile Watchlist (which I use as a consolidated watch list). I've got these: - Mobile Watchlist - ETF Only - TFIA - Shares Result is that you need to double capture new holdings etc. Small inconvenience, but if one of you can figure out how to view all your watchlists on the app it would be appreciated.

So I've used Google Finance, MarketWatch and Bloomberg over the past few years. Always stuck with Google because it is easy to search/research on it. Some discussion on this forum caused me to revisit Bloomberg etc. I updated my holdings on it and realised again why I like it so much - the breakdown and graphs

I'll contribute my opinion since photoshop skillz are limited, but something like your avatar is a great start. That page is too white.

11:55 - 12:20 according to their email

Here you go (Bloomberg): Actually not bad at all. Plus it is available on your phone through their app. So if Google Fiance does get canned you have this.

...one of the main reasons I moved my ETFs (and possibly my TFSA in the near future) to ABSA. The UI is just more usable and doesn't look like Candy Crush Equities Google Finance only takes you so far and is not under active development. It is a great tool but who knows when Google will finally decide to kill it. MarketWatch and Bloomberg do have watch list features but I never took to them.

Wonder who this witness. Maybe Reeva's mom or Oscar himself!

Brexit fear if I had to guess (see you already linked it). I do not bother too much with news of this kind because it causes "panic" and knee jerk reactions. Combine that with the Rand losing some value (last I check we were at about R15.30 to the USD), the optimism of surviving a downgrade eroding, day to day ANC kark, three consecutive days of shootings in the USA....the world is just not a happy place. That's my opinion anyway. Personally I use times like these to stock up on more bond ETFs etc. that can weather the storm a bit better. The JSE being g down tomorrow for about an hour - that's to recalculate futures. Doesn't affect anything really.

So I went and investigated SWIX some more and IMO there is some cause for concern (MAPPSG uses it). So back in the early 2000s the Top 40 was heavily packed with resource shares (the majority of which are dual listed). So what they did was devise an investment fund/approach that would even things out across sectors...SWIX. What they did not foresee (read "didn't think through?") was that the rules they put in place to reduce the resource exposure would eventually cause the SWIX top 40 to be dominated by industrial stocks. This I did not know or think of because when I bought into SWIX I saw it as a way of avoiding "top heavy" shares like the classic top 40 has. Well, it's not that. So atm it is doing very well but you could probably swop it for STXIND and potentially do even better. What I want is a broadly diversified ETF with checks in place to avoid the above mentioned problem ...and that's the CTOP50 for me at this stage. I'm not selling any of my NFSWIX just yet but not making any new investments into it. As for MAPPSG/P: still very good. But I (and I know I change my mind often [emoji14] ) would rather build it myself: CTOP50 80% NFILBI 10% NFGOVI 10% ...and skip the cash component since that is do e for retirement annuity products (I think) In fact, I'd probably forget the NFGOVI and increase NFILBI.

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No, you asked, why do I want a vanilla top 40, so I showed that the vanilla is the best performers from the top 40 selection I must choose from for my TFSA It's not. Maybe between the two dates you chose but SWIX outperforms it. Take it one year back to the date (on Bloomberg): 3.05% vs 6.40% March 18, 2012 to today: NDSWIX: 79.54% STX40: 52.14%

And? You're not really comparing apples with apples here. ASHT40 (RMBT40), STX40 and STAN40 are all just regular market cap top 40s (the oldest ETFs in South Africa). SWIX, RAFI and EW are all completely different from the above three (which all suffer from that inherent flaw that a single share can have too high a weighting).

The old RMBT40? What's so attractive about a vanilla top 40?

...or put your money in a money market account? If you want to protect money rather dump it in NFILBI (apparently no capital gains applicable)

I suggest making the font size a tad smaller. It's just too big and is actually more difficult to read. We can always add another theme to do it.

Meh, Google Finance or... www.bloomberg.com/quote/DIVTRX:SJ www.moneyweb.co.za/tools-and-data/click-a-company/?shareCode=DIVTRX ..and just replace DIVTRX with you code. Much easier unless you are "hunting" for shares.

http://trade.imara.co/free/sens/disp_news.phtml?tdate=20160614072500&seq=4&scheme=imaraco ?