The key factors that matter to financial advisers
Florbela Yates, Managing Director at Equilibrium explores seven key factors that can contribute to financial advisers' success.
The power of understanding financial behaviour
How Discretionary Fund Managers free advisers to focus on their clients. By Pat Magadla, Head of Distribution at Equilibrium.
Making succession planning a success
Succession planning remains a top priority for advisors everywhere. Florbela Yates, head of Equilibrium, discusses their approach, which begins with ensuring the advisor's investment offering is clean and scalable.
How having a bias affects your potential returns as an investor
According to Florbela Yates, Head of Equilibrium in the Momentum Metropolitan group, lack of diversification and irrational biases affect returns and investors’ long-term investment amounts.
Equilibrium Investment Management
Equilibrium empowers financial advisors with expert investment management solutions by streamlining your workflow, fostering collaboration, and delivering exceptional service.
Improved balance in your practice
Florbela Yates, Managing Director of Equilibrium, speaks about the current DFM landscape and the status of her organisation.
Removing the jargon from your investment goals
Florbela Yates, Head of Equilibrium, discusses the robustness of South Africa’s financial investment protections, covering the risks and defenses linked to banks, insurance firms, and unit trusts, and the role of LISPs in controlling and securing investments.
The power of balance in your advice practice
Equilibrium has successfully grown its market share over recent years, built on good investment outcomes and by adding value to advice practices, writes Riaan Bosch, portfolio manager at Equilibrium.
How to get the year off to a good start.
The start of a new year is a great time to reflect on what worked and what didn’t in the past.
Consider paying off debt prior to retirement
Coming to the end of your working career requires a step up in terms of financial planning, says Florbela Yates, Head of Equilibrium.
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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.
Alexforbes named South African Manager of the Year at the Raging Bull Awards
Alexforbes were honoured at the Raging Bull Awards with two prestigious awards that highlighted the firms investment achievements and long-term performance.
What are the different types of structured products available to retail and institutional investors...
There is a limited range of structured products offered in South Africa compared to the rest of the world.















