Farzana Botha
Segment Marketing Manager: Sanlam Risk & Savings
Farzana Botha is the Segment Marketing Manager at Sanlam Risk & Savings. Previously, she worked as a Product Technical Specialist for Sanlam Recurring Savings. She has 17 years of industry experience.
She is currently working on her Honours in Integrated Organisational Communications through UNISA. She holds Protea Colours for Powerlifting and is currently based in Johannesburg
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How do SPs fit into the South African investment landscape?
Structured products are gaining traction in South Africa, complementing traditional asset classes through more customised risk management amid technological and regulatory change.
What key factors should institutional investors consider?
The role of structured products in institutional investments is growing, but these investors need to consider all the usual risks and benefits including liquidity and compliance with regulations such as Regulation 28 of the Pension Funds Act.
What risks and potential rewards need to be evaluated in structured products?
In evaluating structured products, all the risk factors need to be balanced against the benefits to ensure that the risks don’t undermine the benefits.
The transparency of structured products’ risk-return profiles and fees
When recommending structured products, advisors need to ensure risk and return profiles are suitable for investors. Full disclosure also requires transparency about the costs of investing. But risk-return profiles in structured products sometimes depend on the interplay of guarantees, conditions and pay-offs. Embedded costs are difficult to evaluate but listed products should be disclosing these.
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