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Banning commission could have serious repercussions – CoreData

24 June 2013 | Straight Talk

If remuneration legislation is overhauled, South African financial advisers stand to lose up to 43% of their incomes. This is according to a CoreData report entitled Advice 2013: Fees & Business Models, which sampled responses from 1 040 individual financ

Could South Africa have its ‘Turkish Spring’ moment?

13 June 2013 | Straight Talk

The so-called ‘Arab Spring’ – the media’s handy packaging of uprisings that raged in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen towards the end of 2010 – forced a handful of dictators from power. But the protests in Turkey at the beginning of June couldn’t be quite

Why a core-satellite investment strategy makes sense

10 June 2013 | Featured Story

The recently held Sanlam Benchmark Symposium hosted some lively panel discussions. Andrew Rumbelow (CIO at Sanlam Multi Manager International), Helena Conradie (CIO of SATRIX, fully owned by Sanlam Investments) and Patrice Rassou (head of Equities at Sanl

The devil’s in the detail of the Short-Term Ombud’s statistics

03 June 2013 | The Stage

Statistics are telling; but they do need to be approached with caution. This was the message of the Ombudsman for Short-Term Insurance, Dennis Jooste, when he presented his annual report in Johannesburg on 22 May. Jooste’s first year as Ombud saw the O