There are two kinds of money: bread-and-butter money and the yacht-and-caviar money – Viv Govender, wealth specialist at Rand Swiss.

'We're looking for the companies that are going to dominate the market in three, four, five years': investment rockstar David Shapiro, deputy chair, Sasfin.

"I figured out compounding relatively early on in my life, and I actually started a little business breeding rabbits because I’d figured out they compound very fast."

'It's all about consistency, legacy and reputation,' says Small Talk Daily analyst Anthony Clark.

‘Look for great companies to hold for the long term, but at the same time look for companies where something strange is going on …’: Jean Pierre Verster, Protea Capital Management.

‘Capitec is a good example of an excellent investment – bought for all the right reasons, held for the right reasons, and then sold because of a technicality’: Keith McLachlan of Integral Asset Management.

'If you've going to put together a portfolio, try to keep it quite narrow,' says Sanlam's Nick Kunze.

‘You need to make up your own mind around whether what the market is seeing is correct, or the opposite. Sometimes it's very difficult’: Craig Gradidge of Gradidge Mahura Investments.

If you are a long-term investor and want to buy something and hold it for at least three to five years, ‘trade ideas’ offers a good spot to start getting involved: Chantal Marx from FNB Private Wealth.

The platform has revolutionised the industry by allowing fractional ownership. You don't need to buy one share. You can buy fractions of it. ‘For me investing is a team sport,’ says CEO Charles Savage.

Chief investment officer Dr Andrew Dittberner says: ‘If you're going to panic, you need to be the first to panic – and that’s the Steinhoff story.'

Protea Capital Management CEO talks shorting Steinhoff, his best and worst trades and the role of luck when investing.

Rezco Asset Management CIO Rob Spanjaard explains the rationale around four top fund holdings: AB InBev, Discovery, Mondi and Bidcorp.

'Private equity looks for businesses generating free cash flow, while venture capital is about building something that doesn't exist and turning it into something compelling’: Llew Claasen from Newtown Partners.

Novare is trying to beat inflation by 3.5% – ‘but with substantially less volatility than the JSE’, says Jacobus Brink, who heads up its multi-management division and is also a musician.