by pension-admin | Oct 5, 2021 | Featured Articles, Pension funds
It appears that the deal where Sanlam Life acquires ABSA Consultants and Actuaries (ACA Employee benefits) has finally gone through all of the regulatory approvals necessary to be concluded. The deal was first announced in October 2017 and was expected to be consluded...
by pension-admin | Jun 24, 2021 | Pension funds
Pension funds fall into a different category of your estate when you die and any value of the fund at time of death or death benefit amount in your pension fund can not be bequeathed to anyone as with other assets. The unfortunate thing about a death benefit claim is...
by pension-admin | Nov 16, 2020 | Featured Articles, Pension funds, Retirement planning
Updated November 2020 Link to FAIS database has been updated. Many of South Africa’s pension fund Administrators hold large sums of money (In excess of R20 Billion) in preservation funds from members who have not claimed their benefits and according to the act...
by pension-admin | Nov 9, 2020 | Featured Articles, Pension funds, Statutory bodies
Unclaimed pension fund benefits amount to a whole lot of money which is sitting in the coffers of the Insurance companies awaiting distribution and you could be one of the lucky ones who is able to collect. Here is the process to follow in order to make a claim for...
by pension-admin | Nov 6, 2020 | Featured Articles, Pension funds
We hear from the State that they are going to be spending huge amounts of money bailing out State owned enterprises, are going to spend on roads, housing and social upliftment programs. We hear demands from unions on unsustainable wage increases and threats to shut...
by pension-admin | Oct 26, 2020 | Pension funds, Statutory bodies
Updated: 26/10/2020 As a follow up to the article that indicates the increased level of complaints against pension fund administrators and the current pension fund adjudicators record of dealing with these cases, we thought you would like to know a little about the...