{"id":63282,"date":"2018-04-02T07:18:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T05:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=63282"},"modified":"2018-04-02T07:18:49","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T05:18:49","slug":"south-africa-advisory-firm-enters-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/04\/02\/south-africa-advisory-firm-enters-market\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa advisory firm enters market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A South Africa-based wealth management and advisory firm, Carrick, has rolled its operations in the country with a pledge to improve the saving culture among Malawians.<\/p>\n<p>Carrick has said inculcating a culture of saving would help improve people\u2019s wealth creation abilities as well as boost economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Blantyre during the launch of the firm, Carrick Group Chief Executive Officer, Craig Featherby, said research has revealed that the country has a poor savings culture and low levels of financial inclusion; hence, the commitment to push for an improvement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have seen that the Malawi population lacks discipline to save. Therefore, we are going to encourage the importance of saving for the future,\u201d Featherby said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the local market has vast opportunities, which Carrick would tap into.<\/p>\n<p>Rating Carrick as an innovative organisation, Featherby said the firm would bring \u201ctailor made\u201d products to address financial management challenges facing a majority Malawians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe market is very much untapped. We are extremely excited because this is a business opportunity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Carrick is a wealth management advisory firm working in five African countries in developing a deep understanding of customers\u2019 financial circumstances, immediate priorities and long-term wealth planning goals.<\/p>\n<p>It creates a unique investment and wealth plan, designed to meet a client\u2019s specific needs \u2013be it wealth creation, wealth management or wealth succession.<\/p>\n<p>The firm rolled its operations South Africa in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A South Africa-based wealth management and advisory firm, Carrick, has rolled its operations in the country with a pledge to improve the saving culture among Malawians. Carrick has said inculcating a culture of saving would help improve people\u2019s wealth creation abilities as well as boost economic growth. Speaking in Blantyre during the launch of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":63287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63288,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63282\/revisions\/63288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}