
Mother’s Day savings at RealityShop
If you’re wringing your hands and racking your brain for ideas to spoil your mom this Mother’s Day, RealityShop is the place to browse. Robyn Daly logs on to make the most of Reality’s exclusive Mother’s Day savings.  ...

10-step retirement plan
The good news is that you’ll probably live longer and be healthier than your parents and, definitely, your grandparents. The bad news is that unless you’re self-employed, at some time in your 60s your company will give you a p...

How to deal with the petrol price increase
More pressure on our wallets comes in the form of yet another petrol price increase. Nick Dall tries to see the light side, and suggests some fuel-saving habits to adopt. Last week petrol went up R0,81. Add this to the increase a ...

Make your money work for you
Welcome to your Smart Money digimag, packed with all sorts of useful information on how to manage money and make the most of what you earn. With the National Budget speech that happened this week, Reality thought it would be good ...

How to budget your money
The beginning of the year is as good a time as any to get to grips with your monthly finances. Here’s a budget plan and some good tips on how to get it right. By Nick Dall. We’re all disgusted when governments or huge corporat...

What to do with a windfall
Karin Muller of Sanlam Personal Finance suggests 7 things to do with a windfall. 1. Ditch the debt Paying the minimum on your credit card is just what the credit company wants, but it is certainly not in your best interest....

Family matters
If you’ve been bumbling along as a singleton, you probably fall somewhere along the scale of living off credit to being financially sussed with solid retirement and financial plans in place for yourself. If you’re living on th...

Be the minority that can afford to retire!
Retirement may be a long way off, but saving for it can’t start soon enough. We all want to retire in comfort and maintain our current lifestyle but due to insufficient planning and procrastination few people can afford to, and ...

Sweet home buying
Know the basics about property buying to ease the stress of purchasing your first home. Robyn Daly unearthed some great tips. The first property I bought was a little apartment on the sixth floor of a block in Rondebosch. It was l...

The art of buying art
Investing in art isn’t simply a matter of buying a pretty picture. Before you throw money away on a mere trinket, consider stern warnings and sound advice from Stefan Hundt, curator of the Sanlam Art Collection. By Robyn Daly. S...















































