{"id":723738,"date":"2023-10-09T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=723738"},"modified":"2023-10-09T08:37:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T06:37:32","slug":"business-talk-psg-head-of-securities-wendy-myers-on-the-importance-of-investment-diversification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/723738\/business-talk-psg-head-of-securities-wendy-myers-on-the-importance-of-investment-diversification\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 PSG Head of Securities Wendy Myers on the importance of investment diversification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this Business Talk with Michael Avery interview, Wendy Myers \u2013 Head of PSG Securities \u2013 explains why investment diversification is essential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Myers is a qualified Chartered Accountant and has been a member of the South African Institute of Stockbrokers since 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has over two decades of experience in the financial and investing sectors, including being a Global Markets Finance Business Partner for Rand Merchant Bank for over 10 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Myers also worked as the Chief Operating Officer for FNB Wealth and Investments, before taking on her current role as Head of PSG Securities in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The interview<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In this Business Talk interview, Myers explains why it is important to diversify your investment portfolio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She details how investors should structure their portfolios and highlights the common risks associated with investing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Myers then unpacks the dangers of having a portfolio that is not well structured or diversified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, she talks about the benefits of rebalancing a portfolio and explains what this process entails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the full interview with Wendy Myers below.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8jp_b-x9MFw?si=w5YnQ6O1gqkkdL0m\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PSG Head of Securities Wendy Myers unpacks the risks associated with having a badly-balanced investment portfolio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":718702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121],"tags":[4671],"class_list":["post-723738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-psg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723744,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723738\/revisions\/723744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}