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  1. 1 hour ago, PG182 said:

    Hi Guys and Girls : question 1) your opinion on best all round ETF combination for your child’s minor East equities account? Example mix of offshore / local and property maybe? I want to keep it simple and long term strategy. I have just opened account for my son and Daughter . Question 2) For Tax Free easy Equities account . How would you split it % local vs offshore vs Property? Which ETFs would you choose . Bare in mind I have an existing RA with 70/30 split anyway local vs offshore ? Any feedback or opinions will be greatly appreciated . Thanks in advance .

     

    ASHGEQ or STXWDM - 65%

    SMART or CTOP50 - 35%

     

    That's if I had to have local exposure. Else I would just go 100% ASHGEQ. That's very simple.

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  2. 11 minutes ago, SaurusDNA said:

     

    Problem is, in a TFIA, there are no tax savings in offshore ETFs except capital gains...   😪

     

    "Trace" amounts, surely. I don't think we're losing out that much at all. Those offshore ETFs paying dividends etc have crappy payouts anyway. 

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  3. Benefit of a TFIA if you start it early enough is that although your contribution limits are low the years it has to grow in value will result in quite a sum of money. Chances are that those limits will increase a couple of times more in the coming decades before you retire.

     

    Once you reach retirement (or have enough funds in your TFIA) you can use it to buy income generating funds which will provide you with additional income (tax free). 

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  4. 18 hours ago, Spreadsheet Ranger said:

    Thank you for both responses. Does 10x or Sygnia offer Pension Funds how are they different to an RA? 

     

    You as an individual cannot open a pension fund. The company you work for can. As an individual, you can open an RA.

     

    RA - matures at retirement age. You'll then be able to buy an annuity with it which will provide you with income. Other than that, the only way to get money out of an RA is to formally emigrate or you have to prove that you'll basically die if that money doesn't become available (I've only heard of this, can imagine that it is borderline impossible).

     

    Pension - when you leave your current place of employment you'll have four options:

    1. Take the Pension money and move it into an RA
    2. Move the pension money to your new employer's pension fund
    3. Take the money and run (you'll pay tax on it)
    4. Move it to a preservation fund

    Preservation fund uses the same type of funds (regulation 28) as your pension and RA does, however you have the option of withdrawing from the fund once before retirement. Not sure if that restriction is per fund or per tax entity (you).

     

    Personally, I have a pension fund at 10x and an RA at Allan Gray. When I leave my current place of employment I will move my pension to a preservation fund. If I had to start an RA and only have one - 10x.

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  5. All I'm going to say is this:

     

    Assuming you bring in a R20,000 pm salary, SARS will take R2,722.06 and leave you with R17,277.94.

     

    Assuming you pay 15% of your salary into an RA (and your payslip is structured like a pension fund), SARS will take R1,942.06 and you'll be left with R15,057.94.

     

    So for the R3,000 you saved into an RA/Pension, you are only R2,220 "poorer" and scored R780 (that's about 25% growth right there depending on how you look at it). If your salary wasn't structured you'd get back almost R10,000 from SARS come EFiling season provided you include it on your tax return.

     

    Now, it's not all sunshine and roses. The money in the RA/Pension will be taxed again at some stage and you don't know what the tax climate is going to be like at that time. They're also talking about prescribed assets (Eskom, Telkom etc) which is a concern.

     

    I reckon that if you can afford an RA you should definitely make use of it (a Pension Fund is even better imo, less rules). If you cannot easily afford it you should probably go speak to a financial advisor but I'm willing to bet good money that their response will be the stock standard:

    1. Get insurance
    2. Settle debt
    3. Secure retirement
    4. Look at other investments (TFSA).

    So if you do go see an FA, get one that charges for the consultation and with a good reputation and most importantly: DON'T SIGN ANYTHING. Listen...

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  6. But in all seriousness - if you had ASHGEQ and SMART you probably have a better portfolio than most other people out there. Can't go wrong with that combination for a strong investment foundation.

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  7. Locally it would have to be SMART (sensible choice) and ETFRHO (for now...because it is flying). I'm up 150% with ETFTHO (kicking myself I didn't have the foresight to push my entire life savings into it 😛 ) but it can't continue like this forever.

     

     

     

     

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  8. Depends on why you want to switch. If you believe in property shares then sure, if it's only because the other's are down then ask why you invested in them in the first place. PTXTEN isn't exactly having a great run.

     

    Might better to just leave it as is and start funding an offshore ETF like ASHGEQ (or sell those two and push it all into ASHGEQ and start funding PTXTEN on the side?)

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  9. Still the same, the only difference being that Vodacom hiked the prices. About R270 pm and I get something like R350 funds on the account. I buy data with it, the rest goes to phone calls. Still have about R800 extra on my account which is a good indication that I can go even cheaper, which I will. Contract is about to expire but the iPhone 8 is still going strong.

     

     

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