Fairlady

Think big, start small

Commodities, share portfolios, compound interest, hedge funds… the world of finance can be confusing and mysterious. ‘There was clearly a need for someone to breach the great divide between the man in the street and the often intimidating world of finance,’ says

Anthea Gardner, local investment guru and a regular on the media circuit for all things money-related. ‘That’s why I wrote Make

Your Money Work for You: Think Big,

Start Small.’ The book promises to help you ‘sweat your assets’: making your hard-earned cash work for you – without needing a degree in finance.

Although her father worked in banking and finance (in fact, he was the first bank manager in SA who was not white), Anthea found that her own sister, as smart as she was, knew little about the simplest

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