Turn goals into a workable plan.
Go beyond a basic budget into savings targets, emergency reserves, debt choices, net worth and long-term planning.
- Goal Roadmap and Net Worth Tracker
- Emergency, debt and retirement scenarios
- First-salary planning
What Pro helps you do
Connect money, career and investing decisions.
Choose the area that matches the decision in front of you. Pro gives you structured learning, practical tools and responsible research—not financial advice or trading signals.
Build earning power deliberately.
Research salary evidence, strengthen applications, practise interviews and connect career choices to long-term wealth.
- Salary Explorer, Opportunity Consult and Opportunity Consult
- CV, LinkedIn and interview support
- South African career-money playbooks
Understand before you act.
Learn risk, allocation and diversification, then research ETFs, companies and a private learning portfolio.
- Investment Journey and risk concepts
- ETF and company research helpers
- Portfolio tracking without brokerage access
Put headlines into student context.
See what happened, why it could matter and what a South African student can learn—without turning news into a signal.
- Weekly Market Brief
- Influence Radar
- Weekly market intelligence
From first salary to global research
Pro is built for the decisions that follow graduation.
Learn how to analyse companies, funds, sectors, currencies and global risks without relying on trading signals or social-media hype.
- Career-based wealth roadmaps
- South African and global market analysis
- Paper portfolios and scenario testing
- Evidence-led research habits
Flexible Pro pricing
Choose monthly or annual access.
R45/month gives you flexibility. R450/year saves R90 compared with paying monthly for 12 months. Gift Pro remains R400 for 365 days. Complete all 36 Regular lessons to unlock one non-renewing 365-day Pro purchase for R420.
Regular completion offer
R420/365 days
Complete all 36 Regular lessons while signed in and StudyVest unlocks this once-only, non-renewing Pro price automatically.
Start RegularMonthly membership
R45/month
Full StudyVest Pro access with monthly recurring billing. Cancel future renewal from your billing area.
Choose Pro planAnnual membership
R450/year
The same full Pro access for one year. Save R90 versus 12 monthly payments at R45.
Choose Pro planGift Pro
R400/365 days
Purchase a non-recurring Pro gift code that can be redeemed by another eligible StudyVest member.
Choose Pro planWhat makes Pro worth it
More structure, practice and accountability.
Free content explains concepts. Pro helps members complete a guided roadmap, apply the concepts and keep evidence of progress.
| Experience | StudyVest Free | StudyVest Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Core financial lessons | Included | Included |
| Advanced South African and global courses | Selected previews | Full access |
| 90-day guided roadmap | — | Included |
| Portfolio, fee and first-salary labs | — | Included |
| Research templates and portfolio journal | — | Included |
| Career Money Playbooks for 8 professions | — | Included |
| Monthly case study and assessment | — | Included |
| Progress dashboard and completion certificates | — | Included |
Beyond market analysis
Pro supports the full early-career wealth journey.
Global investing is one part of the programme. Members will also learn how to handle the first salary, test income ideas and connect earning with long-term asset building.
First salary
First Salary Wealth Roadmap
Plan tax, essential costs, family support, workplace benefits, debt and investing before lifestyle pressure takes over.
Income lab
Student Income Lab
Evaluate low-capital campus business ideas using demand, pricing, cost, cash-flow and risk—not guaranteed-income claims.
Career Money Playbooks
Your profession changes the money questions worth asking.
Pro members can choose a career, career stage and country context to build an educational money roadmap around training costs, income patterns, professional expenses, career capital and long-term diversification.
Medicine
Long training, changing income
Plan around study costs, early clinical years, professional expenses and delayed peak earnings.
Engineering
Credentials + project income
Connect registration, technical career capital, project allowances and consulting risk to a wealth plan.
Law & Finance
Professional progression
Understand training years, bonuses, partnership paths, employer concentration and lifestyle inflation.
Tech & Entrepreneurship
Equity + irregular income
Learn runway, equity-compensation risk, business cash flow and diversification away from your own venture.
Education & Trades
Structured income + side work
Use predictable salary, benefits, certifications, tools and contracting income deliberately.
My Career → My Money Plan
Stage-aware roadmap
Choose Student, Early Career, Growing, Senior or Independent and get the next financial learning priorities.
Career Money Playbooks provide general education—not salary promises, tax advice, product recommendations or personalised financial advice.
A clear first 90 days
Pro tells members what to do next.
The value is not only more content. It is a sequence that moves from stability to investment analysis.
Money system
First salary, emergency planning, family support, debt and cash flow.
Asset building
South African investment structures, costs, risk and long-term planning.
Global analysis
Currencies, global funds, company research and a paper portfolio.
Flagship Pro programme
Global Markets and Wealth
Built for South African students who understand the basics and want to research international assets, currencies and risks more seriously.
Module 1
Global opportunity set
Understand why investors look beyond their home country and how global exposure changes a portfolio.
Module 2
Access routes
Compare local global funds, direct offshore access, ETFs and fractional structures.
Module 3
Currency risk
Separate asset performance from rand translation and test strengthening or weakening currency scenarios.
Module 4
Hidden concentration
Look through funds to duplicated holdings, sector weights, countries and currencies.
Module 5
Company analysis
Study business models, cash flow, balance sheets, valuation and geopolitical exposure.
Module 6
Indices and global funds
Understand weighting, methodology, tracking difference, fees and thematic risk.
Module 7
Operational risk
Explore political, tax, custody, liquidity, reporting and jurisdiction risks.
Module 8
Paper portfolio lab
Build and review a simulated global portfolio using predefined rules and evidence.
Every analysis shows the whole picture.
Members see the opportunity and the downside—not just an exciting headline.
OpportunityWhy investors may care
Business model, exposure, structural role and realistic drivers.
CurrencyWhat the rand can change
Asset return and currency translation are shown separately.
DownsideWhat could go wrong
Valuation, political, tax, custody, concentration and liquidity risks.
EvidenceSources and assumptions
Publication date, research questions and unresolved uncertainty.
Interactive Pro tool
See how currency can change a global return.
Test asset gains or losses, rand strengthening or weakening, and estimated fees in one transparent model.
Open Regular / Pro simulatorStudyVest Pro
Learn. Practise. Research. Decide better.
Pro now centres on Learning Paths, First Salary, Career Money, Decision Coach, Scam Detective, My Research, Workspaces, Weekly Market Recaps and quiet contextual StudyVest assistance—without adding more primary navigation.
Weekly value
Weekly Market Recap: what moved, why it mattered and what concept to learn.
Public disclosure intelligence
Influence Radar checks current public sources, separates filing timing from interpretation and helps you challenge the obvious narrative.
Weekly Market Brief
Understand the week’s important market developments, their mechanisms, South African relevance and uncertainty.
Company Explorer
Research listed companies across global exchanges using current public sources, dated financial evidence and clear uncertainty.
Savings & Rates Explorer
Check current published savings information while comparing access, conditions, minimums and rate definitions.
Private Portfolio Tracker
Track holdings, cost, manually entered current value and concentration without connecting a brokerage account.
Applied learning
Decision Labs, Case Files, advanced comparisons and Monthly Challenges.
Career transition
First Salary and Career Money connect university learning to professional life.