{"id":3103,"date":"2026-05-20T04:57:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/?p=3103"},"modified":"2026-05-20T04:57:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:57:45","slug":"trying-to-drown-out-the-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/?p=3103","title":{"rendered":"Trying to drown out the noise \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Welcome to the Be a Better Investor show, one of South Africa\u2019s longest-running investment podcasts, which is also now available on MoneywebTV.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trying to drown out the noise ...\" width=\"1110\" height=\"833\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pSwibUm8WaY?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><\/p>\n<p>In this show, I speak to leading investment professionals about current market conditions, portfolio strategies, and their outlook for global markets. The objective is quite simple: to extract some practical insights that can help retail investors make better investment decisions.<\/p>\n<p>The guest on this episode is Reza Hendrickse. He is a portfolio manager at PPS Investments, a role he has held for nearly a decade.<\/p>\n<p>We are currently seeing a lot of unpredictable volatility in the markets. And it\u2019s mostly as a result of a global conflict, the Strait of Hormuz, which is actually geographically very, very small, but very, very important in the world economy.<\/p>\n<p>Listen\/read:<br \/>The complex forces driving 2026\u2019s financial markets<br \/>Trump\u2019s renewed Iran warning risks more volatility, analysts say<br \/>The reality of US tariffs for export-reliant economies [April 2025]<\/p>\n<p>How do you navigate this environment, especially if you are tasked with managing people\u2019s money to ensure that they retire comfortably?<\/p>\n<p>Hendrickse weighs in on this, sharing investment insights and lessons learned over the years in this latest episode.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/iframe.iono.fm\/e\/1677447?layout=modern\" width=\"100%\" height=\"170\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can also listen to this podcast on iono.fm here.<\/p>\n<p><em>For previous episodes of the Be a Better Investor podcast, click\u00a0here.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>#drown #noise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Be a Better Investor show, one of South Africa\u2019s longest-running investment podcasts, which is also now available on MoneywebTV. In this show, I speak to leading investment&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5271,5272],"class_list":["post-3103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investing","tag-drown","tag-noise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}