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The core of any financial adviser’s business model should be the client. In this first of a two articles series we will look at the strategies for future financial advice. To understand the advice model of the future advisers will need to understand the evolving needs of their clients in the next ten years.
The reason that the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) has pushed the demarcation issue so vehemently is the assumption that gap cover undermines the existence of medical schemes.
In the drive for profit, companies that offer retirement solutions have made saving for retirement unnecessarily complicated and costly. National Treasury addressed this issue in its technical discussion paper Charges in South African Retirement Funds, and argued that reducing the costs associated with retirement savings would have the effect of increasing net retirement savings.
Clients battle to get their heads around the future capital amount they need to provide income from, especially when provision for inflation after retirement is included in the calculations.
If you had to hazard a guess, when do you reckon the COFI Bill will be signed into law?