by pension-admin | Sep 5, 2019 | Featured Articles, Pension funds, Tax free
The Tax Free Savings and Investment allowance has been available since 2015 and many South Africans have taken up the opportunity to get tax free returns. What exactly does Tax free mean? Tax Free means just that. Any interest, capital gains, dividends, or any form of...
by pension-admin | Jun 19, 2019 | Crypto currencies, Featured Articles, Pension funds
There are some big hitters backing Facebooks Libra coin, including Naspers, Paypal, VISA and Mastercard. This is an amazing coup for Facebook, with 30 big names backing the crypto currency so far. There are hopes that 100 of the Worlds biggest Internet Giants will...
by pension-admin | Apr 30, 2019 | Featured Articles, Pension funds
The Government employees pension fund (GEPF) is the largest pension fund by investment value that invests the retirement savings of all South African Government employees. The GEPF is currently seeking to increase it’s exposure to foreign markets and currencies...
by pension-admin | Oct 24, 2017 | Featured Articles, Pension funds, Retirement Annuities, Statutory bodies
In the recent pension fund adjudicators annual report there is an alarmingly high incidence of companies deducting money from employees salaries for investment into pension funds or other retirement products and the money being deducted, not being paid over to the...
by pension-admin | Nov 14, 2016 | Financial planners, Pension funds
In recent years, Expat South Africans living in the UK, USA or Australia in particular, have seen their retirement/pension payouts reduced by enormous amounts once transferred to the country they now live in due solely to the currency fluctuations. If this is your...
by pension-admin | Nov 10, 2016 | Pension funds, Statutory bodies
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 person who adjudicates...
