Portfolio Management for Financial Advisors: A Structured Approach to Mastering the Art and Science of Client Portfolio Management, Volume 2

Prince Sarpong

Jan 2024 · Centre for financial Planning Studies

About this ebook

Volume 2 of Portfolio Management for Financial Advisors is a visionary exploration into the evolving landscape of managing client portfolios in financial planning. Being more than a sequel, this book challenges the financial planning profession to aspire for profound impact. Beyond foundational concepts, the author blends professional experience with academic rigour to provide a unique lens on managing client portfolios. Among other topics, the book delves into practical tools for portfolio risk management, retirement portfolio management, and boldly asserts the profession's potential to address global challenges.

About the author

Prof. Prince Sarpong is Associate Professor of Finance at the School of Financial Planning Law, University of the Free State, and a post‑disciplinary systems architect whose work spans corporate finance, financial psychology, AI epistemics, and institutional behaviour. 

He has developed several pioneering frameworks, including Brittle Financial Health, Antifragile Financial Therapy, Institutional Financial Therapy, and the Cognitive Growth Index (CGI), a generative AI model for mapping intellectual recursion and adaptive cognition.

His broader intellectual ecosystem, Sarpong Strategia, anchors a set of transdisciplinary ventures: the Centre for Financial Psychology and Systems (CFPS) in Bloemfontein, South Africa; Financial Therapy for Men Inc. and Fortis Strategia LLC in Sacramento, California; and Applied AI Epistemics, a research lab focusing on epistemic research and reform in the age of artificial intelligence.

He currently serves on the advisory board of AI 2030, a Washington, DC–based global nonprofit for responsible AI; a member of the Equity and Inclusion Committee of the Financial Therapy Association in the US; and is a member of the Financial Planning Institute of Southern Africa.

Prof Sarpong’s current work confronts the limits of traditional disciplinary boundaries by designing systems that metabolize pressure into structure, across money, identity, capital, and corporate leadership.