Online investment platform Easy Equities, the overall winner of the African FinTech Awards in 2016, has launched the BizNews SA Champions portfolio. With innovative CEO Charles Savage (pictured) at the helm, the award-winning platform allows investors to buy fractional shares in leading companies simply and cheaply.
Managed by media entrepreneur and BizNews and Moneyweb founder Alec Hogg, the aggressive portfolio allows investors to buy a stake in leading South African companies that have made a splash globally and have great prospects for the future for as little as R100.
- Register now for the FinTech Africa Future of Payments event in Sandton on 14 March. Some 200 insiders, experts, startups and investors will discuss the developments and challenges for payments in Africa.
The weightings are periodically adjusted to reflect the relative value offered by the price level of the stocks. Current holdings include MTN, Investec and Naspers. The portfolio will be discussed monthly in a live webinar for Biznews Premium subscribers.
Veteran business journalist Hogg is a Warren Buffett disciple and a firm believer in the Sage of Omaha's approach of owning a few high quality, well priced stocks you'd be prepared to hold forever. The author of the bestselling How to Invest Like Warren Buffett, Hogg has run a publicly-accessible Global Share portfolio for Standard Bank Online which has achieved an annualised return of 29%.
