30 October 2024

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Financial Planning

Client agency

Rob Macdonald, Independent Consultant
Is client agency the most important factor in successful financial planning? Independent consultant, coach and author Rob Macdonald shares his experience....

FPI

Building better futures 

The CEO of the Financial Planning Institute of Southern Africa shares the FPI’s latest news....

Thought Leaders

Retirement

Reimagining retirement: Why rules of thumb matter more than we think

Martiens Barnard, Marketing Actuary at Momentum Investments, reveals the five crucial risks that determine whether retirement income lasts, as unpacked in Momentum's 'Reimagining Retirement’ campaign....

More Features

Protecting independent financial advice

The Financial Intermediaries Association of South Africa’s primary purpose is to guard, develop, promote and represent professional advisory and intermediary businesses in the financial services industry. Blue Chip speaks to Lizelle van der Merwe, CEO of the FIA....

How important is investment performance when assessing a DFM?

A DFM’s performance is critical, but what exactly do we mean by a DFM’s “performance”?...

Understanding the different faces of investment risk

Risk and reward go hand in hand. But as behavioural expert Carl Richards once put it, “Risk is what’s left over after you think you’ve thought of everything,” writes Roné Swanepoel, CFA®, Head of Distribution, Morningstar Investment Management South Africa....

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....

Events

Global Financial Planning Conference ALL STARS

 

Meet the Managers 2026

 

IRFA 2026 Conference

 


Sneak peaks: Blue Chip, Issue 93

Rudolph Geldenhuys, CFP® - Senior Financial Planner at WealthUp.

The ebb and flow of more caught than taught

Meet the 2024/25 FPI Financial Planner of the Year winner: Rudolph Geldenhuys, CFP®. Blue Chip speaks to him about his goal of helping the sector become more inclusive, vibrant and greater in number...
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The two-pot system and its implication for financial planners

By now, every financial planner and advisor should be well-versed in the two-pot retirement system implemented in September 2024. If you’re not, it may be time to reconsider your career choice. Wouter Fourie, CFP®, Director, Ascor Independent Wealth Managers, states that this system has introduced significant changes requiring a strategic retirement planning approach....
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What I’d like to know from my financial planner about climate change

According to Professor Mark New, Research Chair at the University of Cape Town, the world is already committed at least 1.5 degrees of warming and the chances of keeping below 2.0 degrees are rapidly diminishing. At 2.0 degrees the risks of catastrophic climate impacts become real....


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