Advisers ‘could charge more’ for the value they deliver

International comparisons suggest there’s scope for local advisers to lift fees above 0.5% of AUM, says Mark Polson of UK consultancy The Lang Cat.

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FIC publishes draft directive on employee screening

The Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) has published a draft directive that requires accountable institutions to screen their employees for competence and integrity, as well as scrutinise employee information against the targeted financial sanctions […]

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Are we paying too much for group insurance?

In the desperate times of the cascading waves of Covid-19, South Africa’s life insurers, and especially group insurers of employee-based schemes, played a critical role in ensuring financial inclusivity by providing insurance cover […]

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Five misconceptions about crypto taxation

Since their inception in 2009, there have been many misconceptions about crypto assets, often referred to as cryptocurrencies. These misconceptions have cost investors millions of rands and have subsequently been addressed or explained […]

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Tech trends are bringing new risks for insurers

Technological development, although rapidly accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, has been changing the insurance landscape for some time. Nowhere have the effects of digitalisation been felt more acutely than in the agricultural sector, […]

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