Using multiple financial advisors may hurt your wealth
Mark MacSymon writes that diversifying financial advice is not the same as diversifying your investment portfolio.
The TT and trusts: legacies in the Isle of Man
Coreen van der Merwe writes about The Isle of Man TT, arguably the most dangerous motorbike race in the world.
A winning formula
Rocco Carr writes about the importance of combining a living annuity with a life annuity.
AI is not coming for your financial planning job
Zeldeen Müller cautions that AI could 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
Kapil Joshi reminds us that financial advisers have always understood a simple truth: no two clients are the same.
Emerging markets tech: bubble or structural growth cycle?
Tom Wilson writes that, while IT earnings momentum is strong, valuations and expectations are extended and forecast risk is high.
Where value meets macro
Leandro Gastaldi discusses Macrovalue investing and a probability-based approach to markets.
Amplify Investment Partners
Amplify Investment Partners recently celebrated nine top-tier awards for industry-leading performance.
Four questions on investing in a geopolitically uncertain world
John Gilchrist writes that the ongoing conflict in the Middle East has raised multiple concerns for South African investors.




















