People’s expenses change in retirement. Shouldn’t their income too?

Conventional wisdom says that living expenses rise uniformly with inflation, so many financial plans are based simply on that. But analysing the spending patterns of retirees shows us that the data tells a different story.

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Keeping the Registrar up to date

The FSB regularly publishes details of changes to the licensing conditions of FSPs. These include new licence applications, as well as withdrawals and suspensions of licences, and reinstatements. To date, it would appear […]

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RE Focus: Why do I keep on failing?

We regularly receive desperate calls for advice from candidates who have repeatedly failed the level 1 regulatory examination. Perhaps we should start off with the bigger picture – on Tuesday, we heard from […]

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Postponement of the level 2 RE's

The Financial Services Board (FSB) announced its decision last week to postpone the level 2 regulatory examinations (REs) until a date yet to be determined. The reasons, provided in Circular 6 of 2013, […]

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RE Statistics

FSB press release: Regulatory examination statistics – There are 11 weeks remaining to the 30 June 2012 deadline for Financial Service Providers to write their regulatory examinations. All candidates that have not yet […]

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