Editor's Thoughts.

Glacier’s Investment Insights session on Friday morning was full of tasty morsels for advisors – both intellectually and gastronomically. In between the economic and portfolio updates, was a session on AI in financial planning. Now I know that this has been “done to death” – but has it?

We humans like to tell ourselves that AI will never (can’t?) replace the human connection. In fact, we’re calling it the AI empathy paradox - a psychological finding where people say they prefer human empathy over machine empathy, yet when tested, they rate AI-generated emotional responses as higher in quality. Mmm … so now as advisors (and leaders) we need to factor in choice paradox, and AI paradox, and behavioural biases, and …

There’s a lot of psychology in there suddenly.

As we wrap up National Savings Month, Damian McHugh (Momentum Health) reminds that the smartest investment decision you can make is in your health. Damian also lays down the medical aid basics in the first episode of Health Hack SA – medical aids and health care is a conversation we’ll be building out in the second half of 2026. Keep watching.

And maybe Leon needs to add AI to asset consultants and multi-managers as decision influencers in The Art of Manager Fusion?

Victor Bucarizza (GIB) shares how the two-pot system is doing exactly what its designed to do. And Bianca Botes (Citadel Global) brings you up to date with where the geopolitics is right now.

So back to my initial thoughts, how do we leverage all the tools in our toolbox (including AI) to influence real and meaningful financial outcomes for South Africans? Do we even know the rules of the new game? This needs more coffee ...

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