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Mcarthur financial planning services cc is a licensed and registered discretionary financial services provider category II (Investment Manager), providing investment management, financial planning, client advice, estate planning (estate and trust administration & Wills preparation) as well as international asset management

WHY USE US

The combination of a unique investment philosophy based on careful stock-picking and long-term global trends coupled with a stable team of experienced portfolio managers, results in a world-class investment Company.

What We Offer

Investment management (is the professional asset management of various securities (shares, bonds and other securities) and other assets (e.g., real estate) in order to meet specified investment goals for the benefit of the investors.) Financial Planning (is an ongoing process to help you make sensible decisions about money that can help you achieve your goals in life) client advice Estate planning (is the process of anticipating and arranging for the disposal of an estate during a person’s life. Estate planning typically attempts to eliminate uncertainties over the administration of a probate and maximize the value of the estate by reducing taxes and other expenses.) international asset management
What Makes Mc Arthur Financial Planning Services cc Different We believe that we can distinguish ourselves and our approach in 3 ways. · Our Solutions. Firstly unlike most competitors, we have absolutely no loyalty or disposition to any specific investment product or financial institution. Top priority for us is to invest in investments that make economic sense, only where we personally would place our own funds and which fall in line with our own values and investment principles. · Our personal level of differentiation. Quite simply put our first port of call is to be your trusted investment /financial advisor/partner and not to act as a product salesman pretending to be an advisor. . Our offering is wide ranging and inclusive. We are able to offer a one-stop service, so unlike most other bigger institutions; you don’t have to deal with different departments for different issues. We deal with your Will, Trust Deed and all other aspects relating to Financial Planning including tax matters. We are focused, read extensively, analyze to evaluate the relative value to pay for assets “The profit is in the buying”,and we are always on the look out for other possible value-added opportunities.
Based upon the outcome of our analysis we construct a robust financial and investment plan and provide you with specific recommendations with the following in mind: 1. the backdrop of our investment beliefs against our well researched strategy, reviewed constantly; 2. our evaluation of the actual investment market conditions; 3. identification of potential investment holdings; 4. identification of the best investment managers that build alpha and are the closest aligned to our Investment Strategy; 5. evaluation of all possible risks; 6. agreement with you our client to specific criteria to meet your specific needs; 7. formulation of our service offering specifically for you and agreement upon acceptable benchmarks and reporting intervals; 8. administrative procedures and practices. 9. signing of the required mandate to enable us to take over the management of your investments and financial affairs if required.

In terms of Board Notice no. 58 of 2010, published on 19 April 2010 every provider (other than a representative) must adopt, maintain and implement and conflict of interest management policy that complies with the provisions of FAIS. “Conflict of interest” is defined as being any situation in which a provider or a representative has an actual or potential interest which may when rendering a financial service to a client; a) influence the objective performance of obligations to a client; or b) prevent the provider or representative from rendering unbiased financial service to a client or from acting in the interest of a client. It should be noted that such interest may be direct or indirect and include; 1) a financial interest 2) an ownership interest 3) any relationship with a third party In order to ensure that Mc Arthur FPS cc, its member, key individuals, employees or agents observe the utmost good faith and exercise proper care and diligence when investing, holding, keeping in safe custody, controlling or administrating all funds of clients such persons may not alienate, invest, pledge, hypothecate or otherwise encumber or make use of client funds or trust property or in any way furnish any guarantees designed to gain directly or indirectly any improper advantage for himself/herself or for any other person to the prejudice of the client. Any breach of the above requirement will lead to the instant dismissal of the staff member concerned. The independent compliance officer will be immediately advised of any such breach with the purpose of advising the registrar to amend the appropriate register. All members, key individuals or representative of Mc Arthur FPS cc who take part in any decision to invest the funds of a client in any company or other undertaking in which he/she has a direct or indirect interest, must declare that interest in writing to the members of Mc Arthur FPS cc indicating the nature and extent of such interest, before any such decision is made. The declarations made in this regard must be reflected in the minutes of the meeting of the members of Mc Arthur FPS cc. The members have an obligation to review all such declarations at an interval of not more than 1 week. In order to assist in the identification of any potential conflict of interest as defined all key individuals and representatives of Mc Arthur FPS cc are required to conduct all personal trading through a stock broker nominated by Mc Arthur FPS cc. All key individuals and representative must agree that the nominated stock broker be permitted to provide Mc Arthur FPS cc with detailed trading schedules of each key individual and/or representative. All key individuals and/or representatives who have any interest in any financial product in which the client is trading is prohibited from trading therein until such time that all orders pertaining to the client have been completed. Where decisions have to be made by a client with respect to their investments (i.e. a non discretionary client or an advice only client) the client must be fully advised of the interest that the key individual and/or representative holds in the financial product concerned. Such disclosure to the client should be writing and preferably counter signed by the client and thereafter minutered by the members of Mc Arthur FPS cc. Representatives of Mc Arthur FPS cc qualify for a proportion of the upfront fee payable to Mc Arthur FPS cc by the clients. This fee is payable by the client irrespective of the product supplier utilized in affecting the clients investments and therefore cannot be motivated by any preference for any specific product supplier. The members and key individuals of Mc Arthur FPS cc are Mrs Carol-Anne Mills and Mr Dennis Arthur Schwulst who are hereby named as associates in keeping with the definition included in the General Code of Conduct as published. It should be noted that Mc Arthur FPS cc does not hold any interest in the ownership of any third party. A copy of this Conflict of Interest Management Policy is available for inspection at the offices of Mc Arthur FPS cc at 28 Dalmore Road, Tokai during normal business hours.

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Mcarthur financial planning services cc is a licensed and registered discretionary financial services provider category II (Investment Manager), providing investment management, financial planning, client advice, estate planning (estate and trust administration & Wills preparation) as well as international asset management and is owned and managed by its members, Dennis Schwulst, Carol Mills

The investment planning process The ABC method

Analyze
At an initial meeting, information and documentation is gathered. This is recorded on a holistic basis so that all relevant personal information can be analysed through a personal information questionnaire; This information is then reviewed and thoroughly analyzed. The next step is the undertaking of a full needs analysis and the measuring of your propensity for risk using a SCIENTIFIC RISK PROFILE ANALYSIS QUESTIONNAIRE; We then formulate an initial proposal, which highlights in simple terms your existing and then a proposed asset base, tax position, asset allocation, impact on existing and future cash flow positions and the measurement of this against the calculated risk profile. We disclose to you the terms and conditions under which we operate; Finally we gather further information to establish long-term goals
Build
Based upon the outcome of our analysis we construct a robust financial and investment plan and provide you with specific recommendations with the following in mind: 1. the backdrop of our investment beliefs against our well researched strategy, reviewed constantly; 2. our evaluation of the actual investment market conditions; 3. identification of potential investment holdings; 4. identification of the best investment managers that build alpha and are the closest aligned to our Investment Strategy; 5. evaluation of all possible risks; 6. agreement with you our client to specific criteria to meet your specific needs; 7. formulation of our service offering specifically for you and agreement upon acceptable benchmarks and reporting intervals; 8. administrative procedures and practices. 9. signing of the required mandate to enable us to take over the management of your investments and financial affairs if required.
Carry out Consider
Having appointed us as your Investment Management Partner we then concentrate on the implementation of our agreed upon plan for you and provide a feedback report at the agreed upon intervals. Constant monitoring of the progress on a relative and absolute basis takes place. The utilization of all alternative investments and strategies is considered for possible inclusion into the plan in accordance with our mandate. This is continually considered.

Family Estate Planning

The aim of estate planning is to preserve family wealth. This means that your financial affairs need to be in order so that your estate is well structured, easy to wind up and incurs no unnecessary estate taxes. At Mc Arthur Financial Planning Services cc , we assist you with the setting up of your Will in the correct manner and a Family Trust structure, if required. We also assist you with personal and trust tax submissions and finally, after your death, we can execute your estate in the quickest, most efficient manner possible.

What Type of services does Mc Arthur Financial Planning Services cc Offer ?
We offer a personalized intelligent best investment advice and planning encompassing all of the above services to selected clients. We understand that the success of the relationship with you our client is based on an intimate understanding of your requirements, expectations and current status. Those services for which we are not licensed or in respect of which we do not have the necessary skills, are outsourced to pre-selected Financial Service Providers, carefully vetted by ourselves. This is more than just theory and nice words. We approach investing and planning in a clear-cut, independent and value driven way.
What process does Mc Arthur Financial Planning Services cc Follow ?
The investment planning process that we work through for each client, we have called the ABC method. In some respects this epitomizes the value we place on precise thinking and the avoiding of unnecessary complications
What kind of financial planning do you offer ?
Risk Profile assessment Private Banking: Call and Fixed Deposits Portfolio management Private stock portfolios, Unit trusts and structured products These services are provided both locally and offshore

Trust Administration

Wills Preparation

Financial Planning

Investment Management

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