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David Shapiro is one of the JSE’s most well-known veterans – a stockbroker with more than 50 years’ experience in the markets. A prolific voice in South Africa’s business media, Shapiro is the global equity strategist at Sasfin Securities, an unashamed fan of Big Tech, and a long, long suffering Arsenal supporter.
In the end, investing is easy. Your (bad) behaviour is the problem
David Shapiro, Otto1890 chief global equity strategist
By any rational measure, ASML and TSMC’s results are outstanding. But Mr Market is not keen to play ball
A trip to the US, complete with a graduation, basketball and the World Cup, reminds David Shapiro that joy is best when shared
The weaknesses of the open outcry system were legion, but so was the exhilaration. David Shapiro looks back on a long-gone JSE rite of passage
The Shapiro family’s loyalty to the football club began in 1927, when a feature on the club lit a spark in a young Jewish Joburg immigrant
Six weeks in the US reveals a nation balancing memory, political debate, economic transformation and everyday resilience
Warren Buffett gave us something money can’t buy: a way to laugh at the market’s absurdities while still believing in its promises
Sometimes, the best stock market returns come from having the courage to concentrate – not diversify
The JSE’s dollar returns were all made in the first decade of the 2000s – and it’s unlikely that history will repeat itself
“It was October 1987: a mad time for stockbrokers because we were in the middle of a global listings boom. It made subsequent booms pale in comparison; you really could list a…
