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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COFI: A strategic reset for financial advice
The Conduct of Financial Institutions (COFI) Bill is umbrella legislation designed to consolidate market conduct provisions from more than a dozen existing financial sector laws, writes Adriaan Combrink, Junior Client Portfolio Manager, Equilibrium.
Catering for bespoke needs
Analytics’ Daniel Schoeman provides a thorough breakdown of what their DFM brings to the table for advisors and clients.
The behavioural alpha – hedge funds offer more than an investment solution
The decision to invest in a hedge fund often isn’t an attempt to beat the market in a purely mathematical sense or simply to achieve an investment objective. Instead, it is a behavioural strategy – a way to manage the psychological friction of long-term investing.
When it comes to performance hedge funds are not all made equal
Hedge fund performance has been favourably comparable to long-only investment strategies. This undoubtedly has helped with the increased investment in Retail Investor Hedge Funds.
Retail Investor Hedge Funds come of age
This article considers FSCA’s efforts to “democratise” hedge funds and how they are showing signs of success as retail funds gain increasing traction.



















