{"id":829512,"date":"2025-06-26T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=829512"},"modified":"2025-06-26T08:41:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T06:41:32","slug":"business-talk-psgs-wendy-myers-on-how-individual-investors-can-diversify-their-portfolios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/829512\/business-talk-psgs-wendy-myers-on-how-individual-investors-can-diversify-their-portfolios\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 PSG\u2019s Wendy Myers on how individual investors can diversify their portfolios"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this Business Talk with Michael Avery interview, Wendy Myers discusses portfolio diversification for individual investors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Myers is the Head of Securities at PSG and boasts excellent success across her 21-year career in the financial and investment industries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She started out as a Global Markets Finance Business Partner at Rand Merchant Bank in 2004, and held this role for 11 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2015, she was appointed as the COO of FNB Stockbroking and Portfolio Management for Ashburton Investments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three years later, she was appointed as the new Chief Operating Officer of FNB Wealth and Investments, and she took on her current position at PSG in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Myers has a Bachelor of Commerce and a Post Graduate Diploma in Accounting from the University of Cape Town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has also held many other important roles in major financial organisations, including membership of the South African Institute of Stockbrokers since 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The interview<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In this Business Talk interview, Myers discusses the importance of diversification for individual investors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She unpacks the different types of diversification and how one can decide which of these options to embrace, and to what level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Myers then reveals the biggest issues investors can face if they over-diversify.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She also highlights the pros and cons of investing in individual shares versus ETFs and unit trusts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Myers concludes the discussion by noting which markets and sectors she sees as particularly appealing to individual investors currently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the full interview with PSG\u2019s Wendy Myers, below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Business Talk \u2013 Wendy Myers on diversification, over-diversification and investment choices for 2025\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1Sdy3KhKBZc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myers unpacks the different diversification options available to individual investors and how to use them effectively. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":829513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121],"tags":[4671,22107],"class_list":["post-829512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-psg","tag-wendy-myers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829512","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=829512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829514,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829512\/revisions\/829514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}