Practice Management

Blue Chip is a Financial Planning Institute of Southern Africa-approved Continuous Professional Development (CPD) provider, allowing members of the FPI to earn CPD points through the journal.

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Securitas™ Financial Group Strengthens Client Relationships through Strategic Acquisitions

Securitas™ Financial Group takes bold strides towards a prosperous future, uniting with Jackie Steele & Associates and Rutherford Wealth to enhance client relationships and expand specialized financial solutions.
Big tech turnaroud. What's behind the recovery

Big tech turnaround: What’s behind the recovery?

After dominating stock market returns amid the Covid pandemic, the household names of the US tech sector endured a miserable 2022. In recent months the tables have turned once again, says Kondi Nkosi, South Africa Country Head at Schroders.
Financial planning advice

How a focus on valuations helps to drive long-term returns

Ask any shopper if they prefer to buy an item at a premium, fair value or a discount, and you’d expect they’d (logically) opt...
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The accountancy profession: tackling tomorrow’s challenges, today

Far from its historic reputation as mere financial bean-counting, accountancy has transformed into a multi-faceted profession that tackles a full range of duties in the world of finance and business, says, Shahied Daniels, chief executive at SAIPA.
Sarah Love

Managing digital assets through an estate planner’s lens

Sarah Love, CFP, shares three things you may not know about digital assets.
Financial Advisors

First-of-its-kind advisory firm launched in SA to support the financial services...

FI Consult assists businesses within the financial services sector to unlock potential, pursue growth, streamline operations, identify and pursue effective strategies, understand compliance, embrace...
Nevathee Moodley

Innovative Wealth Management

Blue Chip interviews Nevathee Moodley, Director of STK Advisory Connect, a female- and black-owned business that provides a support service to financial planning businesses primarily around the use of technology.

Leading global financial services

South African wealth manager chosen for global Top 100 list

Controlling the ‘controllables’ in uncertain times

Using evidence-based investing principles - relying on accurate facts and credible analysis - to meet investment goals
growth

Seeking opportunity through an ESG lens

The Covid-19 crisis has laid bare the very real interconnectivity between our social, environmental and market systems
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Shaping spaces that help great financial planners do their best work

Consolidated Wealth Group is shaping a space where thoughtful advice, disciplined investment thinking and well‑designed systems come together with purpose. It’s a quiet evolution, grounded in professionalism, that signals a forward‑looking approach to the craft of financial planning.

Advancing professionalism in the industry

Consolidated Wealth Group provides exceptional financial planning advice, a standard that has been built through years of dedicated excellence. The group was the first wealth management firm to earn FPI Approved Professional Practice status. Blue Chip speaks to CEO, Craig Kiggen.

What are all the costs that go into using a DFM?

As DFMs become embedded in financial planning practices, understanding the full cost structure behind their use is increasingly important.

VISION 2030

Blue Chip speaks to the Financial Planning Institute of Southern Africa’s CEO, Lelané Bezuidenhout, about winning the FPSB 2025 Noel Maye Award for outstanding contributions to the profession as well as the FPI’s new Vision 2030 strategy.

Satrix celebrates 25 years of industry leadership

The Satrix story began in January 2000 with a first institutional mandate of R800-million, at a time when passive investing was still largely uncharted territory.
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