The pandemic and lockdown have certainly taken a toll on many a budget, so we asked members of the GCI team for some great ideas on how to spend the holidays, while giving your wallet a bit of a holiday too.
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How to Avoid the Black Friday Blues
This year, of all years, make Black Friday work for you – rather than the other way around.
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Life: a risky business
Being in a car accident or becoming disabled - while these are legitimate life events that could happen and are indeed worrying, we so often overlook one particular risk, because it is not immediate and direct – the risk that you are going to live.
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Spring Clean Your Finances
Springtime is seen as a time for a fresh start and renewal, and with a year like 2020, many of our lives could use a spring clean right now.
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The golden nuggets of Wealth Tour 2020
This year we hopped into the passenger seat as David Coulthard shared this thoughts on finding purpose in life, using data in decision-making and how to maintain disciplined life.
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Newsflash: SA Deaths Double
Covid19 related deaths in South Africa rose from 5 on Friday morning to 11 as at Sunday night, with an increase of the total number of confirmed cases rising 70 since Saturday. Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates said that the coronavirus death toll in the US could be “well short” of the estimates of the top...
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Newsflash: Lockdown, 1/3 done
6.6 million US workers filed for their first week of unemployment benefits for the week ending 28 March. The previous week’s number was 3.3 million. The worst number previously was 665 000 on March 28 in 2009. These two new numbers imply that the US unemployment rate is now 9.5%, up from 3.5% just a...
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Newsflash: Anyone for Tennis?
The global infection rate is approaching 1m people, and with the total deaths, this implies a mortality rate of 5%, which is higher than predicted. We hope that this will drop with the roll-out of many more tests. Global equity markets fell yesterday with the US S&P 500 dropping the most two weeks. This comes...
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Newsflash: Eye of the storm?
The Rand held steady against the US dollar, ending the first day after the Moody’s credit downgrade and is currently below the USD/ZAR18 level (although it did spike past that level intraday). The infection rate in South Africa is not exponential. Global infection rates, though going up, have not spiked, with daily increases holding steady...