Stories By Lizelle Steyn
Retirement
Best Retirement Annuity (RA) in South Africa?
Jul 18, 2021While searching for the best retirement annuity (RA) in South Africa, you would have heard about...
My Investments
How to compare ETF and unit trust fees
Jun 28, 2021Fees can really weigh on your investment performance. For every extra 2% per year in fees,...
My Investments
Surprise! I do pay tax on my TFSA!
Jun 8, 2021Since tax-free savings accounts were launched in 2015, I’ve been under the impression that they are...
My Investments
Active vs Passive – A game without an end
May 26, 2021If you’re a DIY investor on the road to financial freedom, you probably already have a...
My Investments
How to diversify your global investment
May 20, 2021One of my weekly rituals is listening to the Fat Wallet Show on Mondays over lunchtime. Besides the...
My Goals
What is Financial Freedom?
May 13, 2021The most common definition of ‘financial freedom’ is being able to live the life you want...
My Investments
How to choose a Unit trust or ETF
May 7, 2021Time and again I see the same pattern. A first-time investor musters the courage to open...
My Investments
How much tax could a TFSA save you?
Apr 28, 2021A tax-free savings account (TFSA) is the one investment product that every investor should have. Most...
My Investments
Is one ETF enough?
Apr 16, 2021I note that some of my fellow financial freedom bloggers hold only one ETF – like...
My Investments
Why not invest 100% offshore?
Apr 12, 2021It’s impossible not to notice the great divide between the MSCI Word Index return and our...
My Investments
The most important factor that drives return
Apr 8, 2021Over the past few years, with investors taking a greater interest in the detail of their...
My Investments
How to get the best interest rate
Apr 6, 2021I’m not much of a cowgirl. I wish I were. I mean it’s super sexy jumping...
My Home
How To Sell Property Privately
Mar 30, 2021There are few things as satisfying as seeing that Sold sign outside your property. Bye-bye municipal...
My Investments
Tax-free savings account or retirement annuity?
Mar 23, 2021We’re entering the last two months of this tax year*, which runs from 1 March 2020...
My Investments
Should I be investing offshore?
Mar 9, 2021Over the past decade, offshore has been the place to invest for South Africans, if we...
Stories
An update on my journey to freedom
May 21, 2020It’s almost six months since I launched my website* and time for an update on my...
My Goals
Could your older self style it financially? – Part 1
May 20, 2020And so we came to the last night of our first trip to Greece*, which naturally...
My Investments
Untangle the knotted web of investment terms
May 14, 2020As someone who gets excited about other people’s journeys to financial freedom, I love to ask...
My Investments
Investment fees: the clear, the hidden and the plain hairy
May 13, 2020The FIRE movement is obsessed with fees, with good reason. These goblins persistently nibble away at...
My Career
Why I (sometimes) fake financial freedom
May 12, 2020It can no longer be postponed. After more than seven years since my last one, and...