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Moonstone: The Risk of Giving Financial Advice

08 March 2013 | General

In view of the heated response to Monday’s article on the focus on commission, I was a little concerned about placing yet another contentious issue on the table. Some of our readers are no longer in their prime, and you cannot rev these old engines too hi

The need for specialist skills

06 March 2013 | General

In an era of ongoing change in the financial services industry, corporate and commercial brokers must bring industry specific skills to bear to add value to clients through innovative, cost effective and quality solutions.

Moonstone: Why single out Commission?

04 March 2013 | General

In my view, there appears to be an over-elaborate emphasis on the impact of commission in the provision of financial advice. We recently saw extensive rules and regulations published to bring law and order to the payment of a wide variety of incentives to

Moonstone: Retirement Reform Proposals in a Nutshell

04 March 2013 | General

If you have not yet come across the words “P-day” and “T-day”, rest assured that you will soon. The draft proposals circulated and discussed by the national treasury (NT) last year, were published as concrete proposals as part of the budget speech.

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If you had to choose one approach to protect your hard-earned investment cash from today’s market madness, which would it be?

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