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Training courses
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Are leaders born or made? 10 qualities of good leaders.
Is a good leader born or can they be made? I have thought about leadership for many years after being exposed to widely divergent levels of leadership competence from various bosses in the corporate world. In large corporations, certain levels of management seem to be...
FAIS Compliance Officers for financial service providers
Attune Solutions (Pty) Ltd is excited to announce that we have extended our service offering to include compliance monitoring for category I, II and IIA financial service providers under the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act, 2002 ("FAIS"). We have...
Classic FM 102.7 FM interview on Cryptocurrency
Listen to the podcast below of our director Kerry Kopke being interviewed by Michael Avery of Class FM (102.7 FM) about the classification of cryptocurrency as an investment. Podcast of Classic FM Interview (Monday, 26 March 2018)
Is the South African hedge fund industry over-regulated?
Hedge funds were regulated for the first time in South Africa in 2015 under the Collective Investment Schemes Control Act 45 of 2002 (“CISCA”). Prior to this, it was the hedge fund investment managers who were regulated under the Financial Advisory and Intermediary...
How should you structure your start-up?
Having recently set up my own legal and business consulting business in South Africa, I am well aware of the many hurdles and pitfalls to running your own business. I work with a range of businesses from large corporations to small businesses but have a real passion...
Launch of Attune
Attune Solutions (Pty) Ltd (Attune) is launching in Cape Town, South Africa in January 2017. Attune offers legal consulting and training specialised in financial services, asset and wealth management. The founder of Attune, Kerry Kopke, has over nine years...
Twin Peaks and CoFI
The Financial Sector Regulation Act 9 of 2017 (the “FSR Act”) has been hailed as the one of the most significant regulatory changes to the financial services industry in South Africa in decades. The FSR Act sees the implementation of the “twin peaks model” for...
The FAIS Act
The Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act, 2002 (“FAIS”) regulates the provision of financial service activities (advice and intermediary services) on specific financial products in South Africa by requiring the registration of financial service providers...
The Financial Sector Regulation Act
The Financial Sector Regulation Act 9 of 2017 (the “FSR Act”) has been hailed as the one of the most significant regulatory changes to the financial services industry in South Africa in decades. The FSR Act sees the implementation of the “twin peaks model” for...
CISCA & Hedge Fund Regulations
In South Africa the business of a hedge fund was declared a collective investment scheme under the Collective Investment Schemes Control Act, 2002 (“CISCA”) in 2015. The declaration resulted in a rapid scramble by the industry for registration with the Financial...
Being a director “like a boss” in South Africa
In the South African corporate world of entrepreneurship, there are many individuals who serve as directors on boards of companies for the first time but with a limited understanding of their duties, obligations and potential liability. The course will outline the key...
Work Ready 101
As the gap between academic study and the practical working environment widens in South Africa, there has been an increasing demand for work-readiness training programmes to smoothly transition graduates from straight out of university into their first paid job. Many...
Perfecting the Pitch – Presentation Training Skills
The objective of the course is to develop and improve upon presentation training skills which are core soft skills in the corporate environment. The course is divided into two components: (i) an interactive group discussion on presentation skills and (ii) a practical...
Attune Training Course – Fundamentals of Irish Funds
The objective of this course is to introduce the two basic types of investment funds available in Ireland, namely, the Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS) and the alternative investment funds (AIFs). UCITS have always been a...
Attune Training Course – Managing Millennials
Millennials (or Generation “Y”) are born between 1982-2000 but do not always identify as such. Millennials have a radically different approach to work than any other generation before them: enjoying working in teams, more collaboration, requiring...
Attune Training Course – Middle Management 101
The aim of this 6-week course is to focus on one of the most under-targeted and under-trained groups in the workforce: middle management. Training and development is often focused on new, junior managers and senior executives producing a bar bell effect towards...