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I am a treasury custodian (coin). I obtain my CAIB (SA) qualification in 2000 completing the Advance Diploma in Personal Financial & Estate Planning. I had various articles on money management published in S A Banker and ROOTS (FNB staff publication) as well as a number of award winning letters to the editor.  

I am a readaholic addicted to non-fiction. I also love collecting book summaries and quotations.

My personal thoughts

If you want to succeed, you have to learn to cope with failure.

When opportunity knocks, you will be a fool not to open the door to your mind.

Problems create opportunities challenging you to find solutions.

Victor Frankl: Everything can be taken from a man but one thing. The fact of human’s freedom to choose one’s attitude in any set of circumstances - to choose one’s own way.

Galileo Galilei: You cannot teach a person anything, you can only help him to find it within himself.

J C Maxwell: Though you cannot go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new end.

Brian Tracy: I believe through learning and application of what you learn, you can solve any problem, overcome any obstacle and achieve any goal that you can set for yourself.

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Attie’s Blog – meet me on the Forum
As a result of changes to HCWHY (and the closing of the Bloggers section), Attie's Blog will soon also be closing down. However, my discussion of Warren Buffett's investment habits is moving to the Investing & saving forum. In the meantime...

Posted: May 04 2010, 05:23 PM by Attie Claassens | with 1 comment(s)

Attie: Buffett’s investment habits that stood the test of time.
With so many books been written on the subject of investing, I thought it would be difficult to find something on investment habits that anyone can learn and avoid losing money. That was until I came across the book of Mark Tier, The winning Investment...
Posted: Apr 17 2010, 01:16 PM by Attie Claassens | with 1 comment(s)
Attie: The Biggest Financial Risk of them All.
Hindsight tells me this blog should be the first in the financial planning series. Believe me. The risk causing most havoc to anyone's personal finances is the risk of being ignorant about financial matters. If you don't take what I am saying...

Posted: Mar 29 2010, 11:35 PM by Attie Claassens | with 2 comment(s)

Attie: Warren Buffett – The learning years.
Born on 30 August 1930 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA Warren Edward Buffett's father, Howard, was a stock broker and United States Representative. Warren showed a remarkable keen understanding of business and mathematics at a very young age. He was also...
Posted: Jan 28 2010, 12:28 AM by Attie Claassens | with 1 comment(s)
Attie: Snowball Investing - Be mentored by Warren Buffett.
As a 9 year old he rolled a snowball bigger, bigger and bigger. At 79 he is still doing it, in rather a different way. To date 4 biographies, which are listed underneath, had been published on his personal and business life. Numerous books are in circulation...

Posted: Nov 26 2009, 08:00 AM by Attie Claassens | with no comments

Attie's Blog – Unit Trust Investing 101.
How do you invest wisely in Unit Trusts if there are 6 broad Sectors, 30 classes and more than 800 Unit Trust funds? Between these funds you will find the consistently top performers, those with average performance and those that simply fall out of the...
Posted: Sep 07 2009, 05:29 AM by Attie Claassens | with no comments
Attie's Blog – Money Personalities # 5&6
Optimists are those to whom money has brought peace of mind while Money Masters enjoy conserving their money and are motivated by value. Optimists are older investors who had successful careers and now want to enjoy the fruits of their labour. They do...

Posted: Jul 25 2009, 10:41 PM by Attie Claassens | with 2 comment(s)

Money Personalities: Safety Player or Achiever?
Share investing? Never, ever. It’s too risky. You can loose your money. Rental Property? What if renters damage your property or even worse, your place stays vacant for some time? This is the kind of comment you will get from Safety Players. Safety...
Posted: Jun 28 2009, 12:18 PM by Attie Claassens | with 3 comment(s)