We don't want to give you the fish, we aim to teach you how to fish, so you can confidently make decisions about your money.
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We started out with a financial literacy course and we’ve since grown into a fully fledged wealth management platform. Education is our heart and technology is our fuel.
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We are building a wealth management platform you can consult before making any financial decision.
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And, which gradually teaches you how to think about those decisions, until you can confidently make them yourself.
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And then, we want to give you the tools to execute on the decisions yourself, easily, conveniently, and securely, so you can build the life you want and build generational wealth.
When I started my career in Finance 12 years ago, I was confident in all my knowledge - I saw myself as an ‘investor’ - someone who took risks and ‘went for it’. The result was 3 years of random, opportunistic investments that led me no where. This changed when I got a clear goal - pay for a top-tier MBA. This was going to cost me a pretty penny, so I took a look at all my investments. I had invested in VERY interesting things - A cricket farm, a lending start up, a peanut butter business, ubers, fish farming - so OF COURSE I was going to be okay, right? WRONG! (buy me a coffee, I’ll tell you these stories!)
I was totally shocked when I discovered that despite investing in all these things that had promises of 5X, 20% return and other nice sounding things like that, my total portfolio return was a measly 8% p.a. - barely beating inflation. Why? I had no strategy, I had no performance management approach and honestly, I had no destination - so it didn’t really matter where I ended up. Having a goal changed this. It gave me a destination, a timeline and focus.
Since then, I’ve adopted a goal-based investing approach to get me moving. In a matter of 5 years, I’ve transformed my finances. I paid for that MBA, then went on to start a business, build a 3 year nest egg, built warehouses that bring me passive income and have had the financial security to build a lifestyle that I love.
This goal-based approach is the foundation for all we do at Africa's Pocket. It's at the heart of our courses on budgeting, saving & investing and it's at the heart of our investment platform.
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