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Seed Weekly - Liberty Holdings – Growing Steadily 27 Aug 2013 | 01:58 pm
Liberty Holdings Ltd (LBH) is a group of companies offering a wide range of solutions in the financial services industry, including long-term insurance, investments and asset management, health risk b...
The Prospects for Local Equity 21 Aug 2013 | 08:01 pm
As with any asset manager, we at Seed Investments spend the majority of our time performing research on a wide variety of investment ideas and proposals. One area that we focus on, is trying to determ...
Top Down or Bottom Up? 13 Aug 2013 | 06:41 pm
“Top down” and “Bottom up” are types of investment processes that determine how managers select their investments. While the processes take different routes to selecting their investments, both have t...
Dividends 6 Aug 2013 | 07:25 pm
Dividends can be defined as the distribution of a portion of the earnings generated by a company. Private investors who need to receive a stream of income can invest in high dividend paying shares and...
Choosing a Financial Advisor 30 Jul 2013 | 07:56 pm
I was recently in the position where I was asked what to look for when choosing a financial advisor. I realised that finding an advisor that suits one’s specific needs can be a daunting task. Below, s...
Choosing a Financial Advisor 30 Jul 2013 | 06:44 pm
I was recently in the position where I was asked what to look for when choosing a financial advisor. I realised that finding an advisor that suits one’s specific needs can be a daunting task. Below, s...
Different Investment Companies 23 Jul 2013 | 01:09 pm
As multi managers at Seed, we spend a considerable portion of our time meeting with investment managers and performing due diligences in order to separate the good the bad and the ugly. Over the past ...
The High Risk of Low Risk Investments 16 Jul 2013 | 03:39 pm
I recently did an investment feedback presentation for a retirement fund that was attended by the wife of an ex client of mine, and seeing her got me thinking about investment risk. Her husband (my e...
Interest Rates and the Impact on Asset Prices 9 Jul 2013 | 01:32 pm
Investopedia explains interest as that charged by lenders as compensation for the loss of the asset's use. In the case of lending money, the lender could have invested the funds instead of lending the...
Are Boutique Managers the Way to Go? 2 Jul 2013 | 12:15 pm
There is always debate about whether boutique managers are better at managing funds than medium and large managers. The lobbyers for boutique managers will always use the argument that large managers ...
