Cooking Up a Good Portfolio: What investors are buying and DYOR

South Africa is celebrating savings month this July! This is the time when the nation highlights the importance of investing and saving.

For some, the topic of investing is something they also do on a regular basis, and this can be an opportunity for new investors to learn and share ideas. In our most recent EasyDoesIt episodes, we featured EasyVSTRs who shared their secret ingredient to cooking up a good portfolio. They also got to share with us some insight into what their investment portfolios look like.

Nozipho Van Heerden considers herself an ETF baby. She keeps it simple and explains how she does things. In this episode, Nozi gets very candid with us, sharing her taboo investment habits, explaining her investment strategy, and how her love for ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) and index investing came about.

We also got to chat with Josh to understand how he chooses his 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.

If you are wondering what the investor community has been buying, you can check our top buys here. Alternatively, you can DIY and DYOR by comparing different ETFs that are listed on the JSE here or below.

Now, for those to whom "doing your own research" (DYOR) sounds like a foreign language, The Finance Ghost, one of South Africa's most beloved researchers, explains how new investors can DYOR and build their investment portfolio.

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