Stories By Lizelle Steyn
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...
My Investments
Is the 4% rule the same as the rule of 300?
May 8, 2020If your GPS is set on financial freedom, that place where you can just be for...
My Investments
How much is enough? Take some of the pressure off.
May 7, 2020I promise this will be my last post on the 4% rule – for a while. Well, this...
My Goals
10 Tips to help you live below your means
May 6, 2020Late 2019, my partner and I flew to Greece for some sun, Mediterranean food, hiking and...
My Goals
Things that can go wrong with the 4% rule
Apr 28, 2020Last week I covered the 4% rule and how to use it to calculate your magic number....
My Goals
5 outdated beliefs that hurt your portfolio’s performance
Apr 27, 2020After so many years in the investment industry one would think that I’ve mapped out the...
Investing
Which is the best TFSA in SA?
Apr 24, 2020No tax on interest, dividends or growth. Ever. If there’s only one investment product in your...
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