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CFP Board welcomes new chair

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 JAN 2022
... planners in the US welcomed its new chair this year. Kamila Elliott took the helm of the CFP Board, becoming the first African American to serve as the chair. Elliott is currently the president of Grid 202 Partners, an investment advisory firm based ...

Frontier welcomes family office specialist

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2021
... to ultra-high-net-worths and family offices. Prior, she served as chief executive and chief investment officer of South African-based Retief Family Office - Huguenot Investments for close to 10 years. Giggins also has several years' experience as an ...

Pandemic delays retirement plans

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2021
... likelihood of younger people and minorities dipping into their savings during uncertain times. "Sixty-three percent of Black/African Americans and 53% of Hispanic respondents had to access their savings to pay for daily expenses during the pandemic," ...

Metrics adds three investment directors

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2021
... he was an associate director and relationship manager within the institutional property group. Metrics swooped on South African Investec's local corporate and acquisition finance (CAF) loan portfolio, as the latter looked to exit the Australian market ...

Research reveals factors influencing advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2021
... consistent". The study, conducted in partnership with South Africa's professional body The Financial Planning Institute and South African firm Momentum Investments, suggests variations are also being driven by "noise"; that which cannot be reliably explained. ...

Sydney boutique to buy a slice of Investec assets

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021
A Sydney private debt manager will acquire a portion of South African Investec's local debt portfolio, as the latter exits Australia. Metrics Credit Partners has reached an agreement to buy Investec's local corporate and acquisition finance ...

Boutique manager hires from Talaria

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021
... for over a year and half. Prior to this, she spent 13 years at Deutsche Bank and was head of equity sales for its South African business. Jonker spent two years at Goldman Sachs in New York as a project manager for interest rate, foreign exchange and ...

UK drags Bravura performance

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021
... its profitability of more than 50%. The administration and management software provider announced that its UK and South African units have severely affected its December 2020 half-year results. In its UK operations, professional services work has declined ...

Chief economist update: Overvaluation tests FOMO and TINA trades

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2021
... macro things, nothing has changed. The worst of the COVID-19 pandemic is behind us. Sure, there's the UK and South African variant outbreak - considered to be more highly infectious - but then again, there's now also the vaccine (slowly distributed ...

Key finance figures in Biden Cabinet

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2021
... He was the senior international economic adviser during the Obama administration. If confirmed, he would be the first African American deputy secretary at the Treasury Department. Another notable female finance nomination has gone to Cecilia Rouse. Biden ...