Using multiple financial advisors may hurt your wealth
Diversifying financial advice is not the same as diversifying your investment portfolio, writes Mark MacSymon, CFP®, Wealth Manager, Private Client Holdings.
The TT and trusts: legacies in the Isle of Man
The Isle of Man is famous for many things, but nothing defines it quite like the TT: a motorbike race so fast, so technical and so unforgiving that even veteran riders describe it as a test of absolute precision.
A winning formula
When it makes sense to combine a living annuity and life annuity, by Rocco Carr, Business Development Manager, Glacier by Sanlam.
AI is not coming for your financial planning job
Zeldeen Müller (CEO, inSite Connect, Creator of AgendaWorx Board Portal) cautions that, while AI might not be coming for your financial planning job, it could still destroy your clients’ nest eggs if you let it.
Ignore asset allocation at your peril
In their seminal piece titled Determinants of Portfolio Performance (1986), Brinson, Hood and Beebower set out to explain the variance of portfolio returns by deconstructing the quarterly returns of 91 large US pension plans over the period 1974 to 1983 into asset allocation and security selection decisions writes Michael Badenhorst, Chief Investment Officer, Independent Investment Solutions.
Pleasant with intervals of clouds and sunshine
For financial planners, it is very tempting to make forecasts when clients ask for our views on markets, currencies and geopolitics. How do we handle uncertainty in markets and meet our clients’ need for stability, asks Galileo Capital's co-founder Warren Ingram?
A DFM who is not just talking technology
AI and technology is now the key to unlocking the benefits of financial planning and DFMs, writes Anton Turpin, CEO, MiPlan.
Conversations over calculus
Deon Gouws (Chief Investment Officer, Credo, London) talks about why smart people make money mistakes.
From prime to repo: a cleaner benchmark for a lower-rate South Africa
Most people know their loan is priced at “prime plus or minus a percentage”. But what exactly is prime, asks Razeen Dinath of Fundhouse?
Education is everything
The ImfundoHub is a digital education platform that delivers low-bandwidth, CAPS-aligned learning support to South African learners through WhatsApp. Blue Chip speaks to the founder, Dr Vashna Jagarnath.
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Personal advice needs a platform experience to match
Financial advisers have always understood a simple truth: no two clients are the same. By Kapil Joshi, MD of strategy and proposition at Momentum Wealth.
Where value meets macro
Leandro Gastaldi, Portfolio Manager at Blue Quadrant Capital Management, discusses Macrovalue investing and a probability-based approach to markets.
Amplify Investment Partners
Amplify Investment Partners is a registered discretionary Financial Services Provider, holding a FAIS Category I, II and IIA licence (FSP No. 712). Renamed in 2019 from Blue Ink Investments (Pty) Ltd, Amplify has evolved from a fund-of-hedge-funds business.
Four questions on investing in a geopolitically uncertain world
The ongoing conflict in the Middle East has raised multiple concerns for South African investors. This article addresses some of their most pressing questions. By John Gilchrist, Chief Investment Officer at PSG Asset Management.
COFI readiness
What is the industry telling us about readiness for COFI? Anton Swanepoel, the founder of Trusted Advisors, offers his insights.
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