Jessica shares her insights into the Optimal Growth Portfolio and the Balanced Hedge Portfolio, focusing on strategic asset allocation, achieving the client’s goals, portfolio construction, and how returns are enhanced whilst managing risk. Click Here To View The Full Interview.
The role of Discretionary Fund Managers (DFMs) in financial planning is evolving rapidly, offering financial advisors innovative ways to enhance portfolio management and client outcomes. In the latest edition of the Blue Chip DFM Guide 2025, Marius van der Merwe shares his expert perspective on how DFMs are transforming investment strategies, improving efficiencies, and delivering...
February marks a crucial time for South African financial planners and their clients, as proactive strategies can significantly impact tax savings and long-term wealth accumulation. As the Tax year end approaches, South African financial planners and their clients face a pivotal opportunity to strategize tax savings ahead of year-end. While these strategies are well-known, it's...
We believe advisers should be able to integrate their clients personality traits and investment behaviour with their investment outcomes. Later this year we will be launching exciting life-based investment planning and suitability tools. These tools are meant to enhance client risk assessments. Read more in the Citywire article below Here.
Amity Investment Solutions’ latest hire Ingrid Breed wants to help advisers give their clients the right advice. Click Here To Read The Full Article.
An online presence is essential for financial advisers to effectively market their services, build relationships with clients, and thrive in the digital landscape of the financial industry. Click Here To Read The Full Article.
FINANCIAL WELLBEING The link between your value proposition, financial advice, and financial wellbeing Financial wellbeing seems to always be linked to one specific word:Money! Money can provide one with wellbeing or at least have a profound impact on the wellbeing of an individual. However, our relationship with money is not limited to the extent that...
DFM The role, the guidance, the value! In the dynamic landscape of financial advisory practices, the role of discretionary fund managers (DFMs) stands out as a very important part of optimising strategies. In South Africa, we particularly witnessed this with the sudden emergence in recent years of more and more DFMs. It seems that it...
Amity’s Marius van der Merwe believes the growth in lifestyle-focused financial planning requires DFMs to offer investment solutions with higher consistency in outcomes. Click Here To Read The Full Article.
Perspectives on Systematic Risk Author: Wiehan Dul, Investment Analyst With $209 billion in assets, the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) constitutes the second-largest bank failure in the history of the United States (Fig. 1). It should be noted that the collapse of SVB was not driven by credit risk but rather by interest rate...