{"id":521,"date":"2014-02-03T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richideas.co.za\/are-you-covered-for-the-cost-of-inflation\/"},"modified":"2017-09-21T12:35:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T10:35:09","slug":"are-you-covered-for-the-cost-of-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/contattolive.co.za\/north\/are-you-covered-for-the-cost-of-inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"ARE YOU COVERED FOR THE COST OF INFLATION?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Every day I sit with potential investors who are shopping around for the \u201cbest\u201d rate. \u00a0 <span style=\"color: black;\"><b>The &#8220;best&#8221; rate doesn&#8217;t exist<\/b><\/span>.\u00a0 It is a customised rate based on your needs, requirements, risk appetite, investment term, access to capital and other factors including tax.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">What I can tell you is that if the rate you obtain after fees and tax is less than inflation you will not be able to maintain your purchasing power.\u00a0 Just a glance at the figures above (reproduced from the Saturday Star 9 February 2013), you will see that very <b><span style=\"color: black;\">basic food items have nearly doubled in less than 3 years<\/span><\/b>!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">So if you are concerned about the returns you are getting on your money with the banks, investment products and elsewhere, <b>make sure we&#8217;ve spoken so that you can relax!<\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day I sit with potential investors who are shopping around for the \u201cbest\u201d rate. \u00a0 The &#8220;best&#8221; rate doesn&#8217;t exist.\u00a0 It is a customised rate based on your needs, requirements, risk appetite, investment term, access to capital and other factors including tax. What I can tell you is that if the rate you obtain after fees and tax is less than inflation you will not be able to maintain your purchasing power.\u00a0 Just a glance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investments"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ARE YOU COVERED FOR THE COST OF INFLATION? - Contatto North<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/contattolive.co.za\/north\/are-you-covered-for-the-cost-of-inflation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ARE YOU COVERED FOR THE COST OF INFLATION? - Contatto North\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Every day I sit with potential investors who are shopping around for the \u201cbest\u201d rate. \u00a0 The &#8220;best&#8221; rate doesn&#8217;t exist.\u00a0 It is a customised rate based on your needs, requirements, risk appetite, investment term, access to capital and other factors including tax. 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