Courage: essential for authentic financial planning
Rob Madonald highlights courage as a fundamental skill for financial planners, emphasizing its importance among the seven key skills outlined in his book, 'The 7 Pillars of Financial Health'.
How employee benefit firms use AI to beat the competition
Zeldeen Müller, CEO of inSite Connect and creator of AgendaWorx, presents several case studies demonstrating how employee benefit firms are utilizing AI to streamline processes, enhance efficiency, and provide outstanding service to their clients.
Big data: the digital disruptor reshaping the South African insurance sector
Vuledzani Dangale, CFP® at Liberty Group, highlights that leveraging big data has become fundamental to driving transformative strategies in the insurance sector.
Leveraging gamification for enhanced retirement preparedness among millennials
Prof. Liezel Alsemgeest, director at the School of Financial Planning Law at UFS, emphasizes that in the dynamic field of financial planning, innovative methods are crucial for engaging and educating today's workforce.
Advice: the key to building and protecting financial dreams
In our complex and fast-moving world, quality advice aligned to our clients’ specific needs is the most valuable key to building and protecting financial dreams. At Momentum, this is exactly what our purpose is.
The learner leader
Kim Potgieter, author, speaker and expert financial planner, won the FPI It Starts with Me 2023 Award. The Award recognises a CFP® professional for their unyielding dedication to promoting the CFP® certification.
Post-retirement income options amid potentially higher inflation
Inflation is the risk that investors will face in retirement. This requires careful navigation when selecting your retirement income options, argues Coronation.
Do You Have a Type?
Capital International Group offers the ultimate suite of investment options with solutions to suit a wide range of client types and investment needs.
And then there were three
The FPI presents the three finalists for the illustrious 2024 FPI Financial Planner of the Year Award. Meet Gareth Collier CFP®, Rudolph Geldenhuys, CFP® and René van de Spreng, CFP®.
Cultivating growth, harvesting excellence
Blue Chip speaks to Lelané Bezuidenhout, Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Planning Institute of Southern Africa.
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The growing demands of AI, data science and global complexity are pushing classical computing to its limits. In response, quantum computing is emerging – a breakthrough as transformative as the telescope was to the naked eye when trying to map the universe. In this article, we focus on the development of quantum computing and explore the impact it can have across industries.
Charity begins at home
Women at Prescient Investment Management are shaping conversations across investments, client strategy and leadership teams. The impact of women’s voices, insights and perspectives are reflected in the quality of the company’s work. Blue Chip speaks to three women leaders at the helm of Prescient.
The two-pot system: One year on
Across the 1.1 million actively contributing members administered by Alexforbes, more than 650 000 savings pot claims worth R9.5 billion were processed in the first year. The Alexforbes member survey showed that 80% of withdrawals were used to reduce debt or cover essential living costs.
Are you feeling awkward… yet?
There’s plenty to feel awkward about this September, with a Capital Legacy advertising campaign showcasing strange, humourous ways in which people have died. But the reason they’re doing it is not what you might expect.
Treasury reforms could drive widescale growth across the economy
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