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How to make a graceful (and profitable) exit

05 March 2015 | General

Wealth managers and financial planners are successful because they focus on ensuring a secure retirement for their clients. However, like many other professionals, they often neglect to plan for their own futures. GCI Wealth has created a solution for them.

Top compliance tips for 2015

22 January 2015 | General

According to my records, this is now my eighth year of dispensing my top compliance tips for the coming year. After due deliberation, I once again lay them out as below. As with previous years, they are in no particular order of importance, and come with no implied warranties or guarantees, but taking these tips to heart and acting thereupon, will reduce compliance risk in your business. So here goes...

Retail Distribution Review to shake up retirement industry

17 November 2014 | General

Greater transparency in the retirement industry is critical if we are to close the massive pension shortfall facing the majority of South Africans. These are the words of Steven Nathan, Chief Executive of 10X Investments (10X), who says that the release of the Financial Services Board's (FSB) Retail Distribution Review (RDR) is a welcome step towards achieving the objective of greater transparency within the financial services sector.