by O'Hagan Attorneys | Mar 9, 2026 | Market Update
“We use the term risk all too casually, and the term uncertainty all too rarely.”( John Bogle) Investors are living through a perma-crisis in which the goalposts have shifted repeatedly, nowhere more so than in US trade policy. Trump’s on-again, off-again tariff...
by O'Hagan Attorneys | Feb 3, 2026 | Retirement Planning, Saving & Investing, tax
“The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. (John Maynard Keynes) 1. Boost your retirement savings Contributing to a Retirement Annuity (RA) before 28 February can reduce your taxable income and grow your long-term...
by O'Hagan Attorneys | Feb 3, 2026 | Retirement Planning
“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is to act with yesterday’s logic.” (Peter Drucker) For a long time, South Africans have been told to use a simple formula to figure out how much money they will need in retirement: multiply their annual expenses by 25. The...
by O'Hagan Attorneys | Feb 3, 2026 | Financial Planning, Saving & Investing
“The power of compounding reflects the principle that small, consistent improvements yield disproportionately large results over time.” (Morgan Housel) In his book The Psychology of Money, Morgan Housel makes a great observation about Warren Buffett: more than 97% of...
by O'Hagan Attorneys | Feb 3, 2026 | Family Law, Property
“All you need is love… and a good lawyer.” (Anonymous) February, with its Valentine’s Day chocolates, roses and declarations of undying love, should be a month for romance, not legal niceties. But in the real world, love and the law are inextricably linked because any...
