Get ready for a special episode hosted by Carly Esterhuizen, Brand VP at EasyEquities, as she hosts Dj @ Large and the tables and mics switch. After an exhilarating journey spanning 3 eventful years, featuring over 100 esteemed guests and sparking 130 insightful investment conversations, Dj @ Large bids farewell to the Easy Does It podcast. Eager to delve deeper into the DJ's story, his unwavering passion for investing, and discover his favorite guests from the show? Press play! Share the love w...
Apr 30, 2024•21 min•Season 3Ep. 80
Whether you're just embarking on retirement planning or you're a seasoned investor, tune in to navigate the dynamic landscape of retirement and politics! In this episode, we're joined by Daresh Lawengee, CEO of Rise EasyRetire , to delve deep into the fascinating intersection of retirement and politics. Daresh kicks off the conversation by exploring why nearly half of working South Africans aren't saving for retirement and emphasizes the importance of starting early. Additionally, we examine how...
Apr 02, 2024•29 min•Season 3Ep. 79
We spoke to Don Kruger and Earle Loxton, respective Head of Product and CEO at EasyCrypto, to chat about cryptocurrencies and their recent upward trend. A key theme to this conversation are the misconceptions surrounding crypto and managing expectations about it. To achieve this (management of expectations) and to demystify it, Earle and Don break down the primary drivers of crypto prices. We also speak about the highly anticipated crossover between exchange traded funds (ETFs) and digital asset...
Mar 13, 2024•29 min•Season 3Ep. 78
Many of us dread the conversation, process, and even thought of wealth preservation when it comes to death, but it’s an inevitable part of the journey. The team at EasyEquities have decided to make it, well, easier in every way. This is why we invited Mbulelo Mpofana, Product Manager at EasyEquities, and Carly Esterhuizen, EasyEquities VP of Brand, to have this conversation with our community. The duo introduces EasyProtect, a new life insurance product in the EasyEquities universe to democratis...
Feb 21, 2024•27 min•Season 3Ep. 77
This episode is part two of a conversation by parents sharing their insights in navigating family, kids, and finance. This special episode is hosted by Carly Esterhuizen, VP of EasyEquities Brand, and features experienced parents Ntombifuthi Dube and Justin Pearse, Client Experience Team Leader and VP of Partner Operations at Purple Group respectively. This part of the conversation gets a little more specific about strategy, where we highlight the value of tax-free investing for the next generat...
Feb 13, 2024•28 min•Season 3Ep. 76
Carly Esterhuizen, Brand VP at EasyEquities, hosts this conversation about investing for your kids. She is joined by Justin Pearse, VP of Partner Operations at Purple Group, and Ntombifuthi Dube, Client Experience Team Leader at Easy. Aside from being teammates at EasyEquities, these three have another thing in common: parenthood. Carly, a new mom, leans on Ntombi and Justin as experienced parents willing to share their insights in navigating family, kids, and finance. As the first part of this ...
Feb 13, 2024•36 min•Season 3Ep. 75
Allow us to introduce EasyCredit . Toward the end of 2023 the team at EasyEquities created a new dimension to investing that helps you achieve your long-term goals. Mbulelo Mpofana, EasyCredit Product Manager, introduces and unpacks this groundbreaking financial product to our audience. EasyCredit allows investors to access financial credit/loans backed by your assets on EasyEquities, meaning you can remain invested even when you need access to funds to address any immediate financial issues you...
Jan 20, 2024•22 min•Season 3Ep. 74
Cautiously Optimistic. This sentiment about the markets in 2024 is how we kicked off the first Easy Does It episode for the new year, an episode where we reintroduce EasyAssetManagement (EAM). Shaun Krom, EAM’s Fund Manager with over 20 years’ experience, joins us in studio to talk about international and local markets, and finding investment opportunities in inflation and among the macro-risks playing out in the world. Our conversation spans geopolitics, cyber security, and, of course, asset ma...
Jan 18, 2024•23 min•Season 3Ep. 73
Every year, without fail, markets move - some years more drastically than others. The difference is in understanding why they move as they do. To give us a clear understanding of the ‘Why’ we invited Duane Gilbert, Chief Investment Officer of RISE - a licensed fund administration, investment management and consulting firm that supports retirement funds and their members. The conversation contextualises the role central banks and inflation played in driving markets, how global political events sh...
Dec 11, 2023•19 min•Season 3Ep. 72
Purple Group and EasyEquities CEO, Charles Savage, joins us in studio right after Purple Group (JSE: PPE) releases its 2023 financial results. It’s not everyday that we get the chance to get leadership to answer a few questions about how the business is performing and its trajectory going forward. Charles talks about the different business units within Purple Group, opportunities in the market, the different products under the Easy umbrella, and how the company aims to use AI to evolve the busin...
Dec 04, 2023•35 min•Season 3Ep. 71
Once again, we’ve invited CayLow Mbedzi (EasyEquities Brand Manager) and JD Breytenbach (Senior Trader at Purple Group) into the studio to tell us what's been moving and shaking the markets lately. To kick things off, we discussed inflation, US earnings, and the significant dividend payouts in October (and it's a lot!). CayLow provided valuable insights by explaining Sustainable Development Goals and why some companies have aligned their operations with these objectives. JD then delved into the ...
Nov 06, 2023•19 min•Season 3Ep. 70
At the Money Summit 2023, we caught up with people from all walks of life to get their insights on finance and investing. We talked to exhibitors, business owners, investors, and students, and we were struck by the common theme that many people want to improve their relationships with money. In this episode, you'll hear from people with a wide range of knowledge and perspectives on investing, finance, cryptocurrencies, networking, and more. Hit play to learn from these inspiring individuals and ...
Oct 27, 2023•25 min•Season 3Ep. 69
We’ve invited JD Breytenbach back on the Easy Does it podcast for a unique session where he answered our community’s questions about trading and investing. The topics covered by the Senior Trader at Purple Group includes insights about how traders perceive the future of AI/ML (A.I and machine learning), stereotypes about traders, how Nenegate affected JD and some traders’ portfolios, the types of mistakes new investors make, exchange traded funds (ETFs), and more. Shares, commodities, and ETFs h...
Oct 25, 2023•25 min•Season 3Ep. 68
CayLow Mbedzi (EasyEquities Brand Manager) and JD Breytenbach (Senior Trader at Purple Group) joined us in the studio to tell us what's been moving the markets lately. To start, we talked currencies and interest rate hikes in Mzansi and around the globe (and what exactly these mean for us beginners!). With South African consumers catching hands at the latest petrol prices, CayLow breaks down ‘Fossilflation’ to us, with JD later highlighting why Sasol is on his watchlist for shares to keep an eye...
Oct 13, 2023•25 min•Season 3Ep. 67
We finally got the EasyEquities and Purple Group Chief Marketing Officer, Carel Nolte, in the studio with us for an all-encompassing episode that we’re sure the Easy Community will love. As a company that takes its community and collaborators seriously, Carel gives us updates about the different charities ( Born2Run , WOW Bursary Fund ), strategic corporate partners (Sanlam and Satrix), and special interest activities ( Otter Trail , Pablo Clark ) we work with. Easy turns 9 years old on 27 Octob...
Oct 06, 2023•28 min•Season 3Ep. 66
We have invited Sascha Graham, Head of Legal at Purple Group and EasyEquities, back to the Easy Does It studio for a chat about the safety of your investments in EasyEquities. The ever-charming legal eagle simplifies the complex rules around financial regulations that Easy abides by. This episode explains what it means when your investments are ‘ring fenced’ from EasyEquities’ operations, and whether fractional shares are protected as well as the voting rights around them (since we were on the t...
Sep 01, 2023•28 min•Season 3Ep. 65
We’re joined again by Siyabulela Nomoyi, Quantitative Portfolio Manager at Satrix, to explain how to read and understand fund factsheets. It may look intimidating, but a fund factsheet/MDD (Minimum Disclosure Document) is the key information document for exchange traded funds (ETFs), unit trusts, and other types of funds. Siya breaks it down, covering different aspects to look out for such as fund performance, fees, dividends, and other components. But this episode isn’t just about translating p...
Aug 25, 2023•27 min•Season 3Ep. 64
For this episode we wanted to directly answer the frequently asked questions investors have when it comes to navigating EasyEquities. We enlisted the help of Ntombifuthi Dube, Client Experience Team Leader at Easy, to answer some of the queries that you may have. The top 5 questions we address in this episode are: How to register on EasyEquities. Can minors, stokvels, trusts, non-individuals, invest in international shares via non-ZAR wallets? How can foreign nationals invest in local shares via...
Aug 19, 2023•21 min•Season 3Ep. 63
While investing has become more mainstream and accessible over the last few years, we still have a long way to go to ensure women and the youth are investing as well. Cleola Kunene, Head of SME Development and Customer Experience (CX) at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), joins us to talk about how we can further expand and diversify the investor demography. While big strides have been made in changing the investment landscape, by getting more and diverse people to invest, Cleola also highli...
Aug 08, 2023•29 min•Season 3Ep. 62
As part of our Circle of Investors series, which highlights people changing their financial trajectories alongside friends and family, we invited Mbali Nkosi and Tinyiko Ngobeni for a chat. Building friendships based on wealth creation can be tricky terrain, but this dynamic duo gives us a sense of how to navigate this. We asked these mates about managing investor peer pressure, conflicting interests and investment strategies, how investing brought them together, whether gifting your friends wit...
Aug 04, 2023•26 min•Season 3Ep. 61
Investing alongside family and friends has its advantages and disadvantages, because experiences are never the same for everyone. That’s why we brought back our favourite set of twins to talk about being comfortable with conversations about money between family and friends, and more, for this episode of Easy Does It. The Stubbs Twins joined us in the studio to delve deeper into their investments and experiences as young investors. We talked about their favourite investments and their not-so-favo...
Jul 26, 2023•25 min•Season 3Ep. 60
Once again, we are joined by JD Breytenbach to throw the proverbial financial market bones. Answering some burning investor questions while giving us a scoop on all the important financial events that had the markets moving and shaking in the month of June. The Senior Trader at Purple Group sheds light on the major global investment themes and macroeconomic factors that impacted markets during June. He delves into the essential characteristics of a good trader and retail investor, shares his bul...
Jul 08, 2023•12 min•Season 3Ep. 59
Urban tranquillity meets urban buzz! Akaru Bryanston is a brand spanking new listing on EasyProperties. Urban living apartments located in the affluent residential suburb of Bryanston, which is part of Sandton. This exclusive neighborhood is renowned for its luxurious lifestyle and provides easy access to top-notch schools, medical centres, numerous office parks, and convenient shopping centres, all within minutes from Akaru Bryanston. In this episode, we're joined by Tyron Baird to tell us ever...
Jul 07, 2023•11 min•Season 3Ep. 58
We’ve invited Nozi Van Heerden, a personal finance educator, author, and self-proclaimed “ETF baby”, to join us in the Easy Does It kitchen to share her own investment ingredients when cooking up her portfolio. Nozi gets very candid with us for this episode, sharing her taboo investment habits, explaining her investment strategy, as well as how her love for ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) and index investing came about. And more! With over 15 000 subscribers following her insights via her own chann...
Jul 03, 2023•25 min•Season 3Ep. 57
Join us in the Easy Does It kitchen for a conversation with Josh Viljoen, senior auditor, founder of the Smart Money SA blog, and finance content contributor for FinMeUp. We chat to Josh to get an understanding of how he chooses his own investments and navigates the markets. He introduces us to his “Two-bucket” system, the ingredients to whipping up a good portfolio (i.e. diversifying across different sectors), and more. We also find out about Josh’s favorite ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) and sto...
Jun 21, 2023•23 min•Season 3Ep. 56
The man, the myth, the legend, JD Breytenbach is back on the Easy Does it podcast. Answering some burning investor questions while giving us a scoop on all the important financial events that had the markets moving and shaking in the month of May. The Senior Trader at Purple Group highlights the big investment global themes and macroeconomic factors that affected markets in May. He delves into the effect of artificial intelligence on share prices, the US debt ceiling, earnings that stood out, an...
Jun 06, 2023•12 min•Season 3Ep. 55
Being a property developer is no easy feat, but double that with being a disruptive force in that industry and you’ve got Jonathan Liebmann: a property legend in the making, changing the South African landscape. Jonathan talks urban villages, the synthesis of property with lifestyle as inspired by innovation in tech, the modern phenomena of being a digital nomad, and how BlackBrick (a modern property space which people can invest in for as little as R1 via EasyProperties ) represents this way of...
May 04, 2023•22 min•Season 3Ep. 54
Nobody likes to think about and plan for their own death, but when you’re investing toward a future that results in generational wealth then you need to know your options. We invited Sascha Graham, Head of Legal at Purple Group, to tell us what happens to one’s easyequities account and investments upon death. Did you know that your assets and liabilities form part of your estate? But did you know that you need a little paperwork (like a will) and admin (updated death benefits forms) in order to ...
Apr 19, 2023•29 min•Season 3Ep. 53
The man, the myth, the legend, JD Breytenbach is back on the Easy Does it podcast. Answering some burning investor questions while giving us a scoop on all the important financial events that had the markets shaking in the month of March. The Senior Trader at Purple Group highlights the big investment global themes and macro economic factors that affected markets in March, delves into Transaction Capital, shares his thoughts on Alibaba and touches on the effects of the US banking crisis. The fin...
Apr 07, 2023•19 min•Season 3Ep. 52
We welcomed entrepreneur, investor, and social media celebrity known to most as ‘Frugal Sibusiso’ to tell us how to improve your chances of getting your home loan over the line. Sibusiso gives a run-down of the property purchase process, as well as sharing tips and tricks on getting the most out of financing property investments. Find out why Sibusiso believes buyers should save up for deposits on property purchases, the documentation typically required, the power of negotiation (with property a...
Mar 29, 2023•43 min•Season 3Ep. 51
