Investor, trader, speaker, writer, photographer, chocolate eater, wine & coffee drinker and sock wearer. But mostly teacher, helping people understand money and all its aspects from saving ~ investing to ~ derivative trading.
1969 ~ Born in KwaZulu-Natal
1987 ~ Wrote matric at Pinetown Boys High
1987 ~ Brought my first share a week before the crash
1988-90 ~ Studied film and video production at Natal Technikon, graduated 1990
1990's ~ Did stuff (vieo production, magazine publishing, restaurants, etc). Lots of stuff learning about online and markets (website design, trading and investing)
2000 ~ Founded SAWarrants
2007 - 2010 ~ Standard Online Share Trading, head of education and training
2008 ~ JSE Direct on ClassicFM (the show now runs as a weekly podcast on Just One Lap)
2011 ~ Founded JustOneLap
2011 - 2012 ~ Co-hosted Hot Stoxx daily on CNBC Africa
2011 - 2021 ~ Finweek columnist
2012 ~ Co-host The Week That Was on BusinessDayTV
2012 - 2019 ~ Hosted Stock Watch on BusinessDayTV
2017 - 2019 ~ Co-hosted ETF Investor with Nerina Visser on BusinessDayTV
2020 ~ Host MoneywebNOW, daily live show 6.30am, podcast 7am
2022 ~ Weekly personal finance column for Financial Mail