Investments 101: How Exchange Rates Influence Your Investment Portfolio

Investments 101: How Exchange Rates Influence Your Investment Portfolio

Vangile Makwakwa
Passive income and retirement

Last week I wrote about country ratings and the impact they have on the economy and your portfolio.

This also has an immediate impact on exchange rates.

A really important topic in my world as a traveller, I always feel the change in exchange rates instantly.

I remember the first time the finance minister in South Africa was replaced - I was living in Goa, India. Up until that moment ZAR1 would give me Rs5, but then suddenly overnight ZAR1 could only get me Rs4. I was super upset.

Now in Dubai, something similar is happening, only now it’s crazier because the currency here is stronger and it’s one of the most expensive cities in the world.

On Building a Romantic Relationship with the Spirit of Money

On Building a Romantic Relationship with the Spirit of Money

Vangile Makwakwa
Relationship dynamics and money

So I am still in Dubai and spent my Saturday in Abu Dhabi, visiting Emirates Palace and The Grand Mosque.

In the midst of all this, I was also dealing with the fact that in a recent spirit of money meditation, money had asked me if he could please to be a husband instead of a lover.

I think it's important to note that this was 10 days ago and I haven't done a spirit of money meditation since.

Investments 101: 3 Factors that Impact Your Investment Portfolio

Investments 101: 3 Factors that Impact Your Investment Portfolio

Vangile Makwakwa
Passive income and retirement

I’m still in Dubai and spent the week checking out cultural monuments and learning a little about the history of Dubai on a tour.

A few weeks ago I wrote about things to consider when creating an investment portfolio, but in today’s blog post, we’re going to explore the factors or things that impact the growth of your portfolio, so you can decide what instruments to add in your portfolio.

How to Start Healing Our Ancestral Financial Baggage & Scars

How to Start Healing Our Ancestral Financial Baggage & Scars

Vangile Makwakwa
Self care and Setting boundaries

As I’ve been doing a lot of inner child meditations lately and I had this epiphany this morning that so many of my emotions that I thought come from adulthood and events that are happening in this moment, don't come from there.

I've just conditioned myself to react and feel in a particular way from childhood, and most of the events in my adulthood just trigger those emotions and I’m reacting from that space of hurt.

3 Questions You Should Ask Yourself before Creating an Investment Portfolio

3 Questions You Should Ask Yourself before Creating an Investment Portfolio

Vangile Makwakwa
Passive income and retirement

When I was growing up I would see my parents and aunts and uncles all with salary slips and on there would be deductions for funeral policies, death cover, insurance, retirement. I'm sure some of y'all know.

It took me years to understand that these were actually investments and this was their portfolio and was because it didn’t make them less broke or lead to financial freedom.

What was the deal with that?

It’s not that people don't invest; it's their approach to investing that holds them back. They buy whatever they are told to buy by the many financial advisors that come to their companies or by their friends.

They join the pension scheme at work; buy the funeral policy their friend is selling, but what's the strategy behind all this?

 

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