Alec Hogg’s regular column covering investment, economics, moneycraft and, occasionally, something very personal.
Some things you’ll never forget. I was in Zimbali, working on an update for my book Shares: A Buyer’s Guide when Deon Basson’s wife Celia called to say he had died. We’d seen each other a month before when he came into the studio for a radio interview about his battle with Sharemax. Deon had … Read more
My son Travis John Hogg died in May 2008. His passing was a mystery to the Irish coroner whose lengthy investigation and inquest ended with a verdict of Sudden Adult Death Syndrome – the grown-up version of the better known but equally mysterious “cot death”. Travis left a huge hole in many lives. Losing a … Read more
A couple years later Nicholas Nassim Taleb would later hit the global headlines after his book Black Swan correctly predicted the massive financial meltdown of 2008.
By my calculations, I’ve written something approaching 15 000 articles in three decades as a journalist. Of those, only a few stay fresh in the memory because of the reaction they generated. This piece, written almost 13 years ago, was easily the most commented-on article during my 15 year custodianship of Moneyweb. I’m still not … Read more