Magnus Heystek: How to take your finances off-the-grid & out of reach of the SA’s failing State

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It is “quite possible" to “State-proof or make your investments ANC-proof so that the policy decisions and the misgovernance of the country have the lowest possible impact on your investments. That is according to Brenthurst Wealth Director Magnus Heystek who shares some of his top tips with BizNews viewers. He also describes how one can put “further distance” between your assets and the ANC government, “which may or may not do funny stuff in the future with taxes and inheritance taxes, et cetera”. He gives the assurance that one does not have to be “extremely rich” to do so as even normal salaried people can build a portfolio with small amounts of money to invest where the “misgovernance and misrule of the state has the lowest impact on their returns in the long-term. - Chris Steyn
2 Oct 2023 10AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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