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Building personal relationships

Edify’s Adam Bulkin believes that building strong personal relationships with clients is the way to attain DFM success.

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.

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?

Adapting Financial Planning Education for a Changing Financial World

Financial planning in 2026 is being reshaped by rapid technological innovation, evolving regulation, and increasingly sophisticated client expectations. The profession now demands far more than product knowledge, writes Mary-Ann Ebigo, CFP®, University of Johannesburg.
Rob Macdonald, Independent Consultant

What is the real value of human financial planners?

AI can handle the numbers, but can it replicate the human relationship, asks independent consultant Rob Macdonald?
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How and why a financial planner should incorporate structured products into an investment plan

Join us for an exclusive round table discussion on structured products with four of the country’s top investment and financial planning professionals.

Palesa Dube, Centillion Wealth Advisory

Join us for an exclusive round table discussion on structured products with four of the country’s top investment and financial planning professionals.

Kevin Swartz, Absa Group

Join us for an exclusive round table discussion on structured products with four of the country’s top investment and financial planning professionals.

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Join us for an exclusive round table discussion on structured products with four of the country’s top investment and financial planning professionals.
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