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...
by pension-admin | Nov 10, 2016 | Featured Articles, Pension funds, Statutory bodies
The pension fund adjudicator has seen an increase of more than 10 000 cases year on year or a massive 38%. The great news for those of you who are skeptical about how your complaint will be handled will be extremely happy to note that 83% of the complaints were ruled...
by pension-admin | Oct 20, 2015 | Featured Articles, Financial planners, Pension funds, Retirement planning
At retirement, if you have worked in a corporate company, you will be part of the companies group pension fund or other retirement saving mechanism. The employee, as well as the employer make a contribution to the pension fund for the benefit of the employee subject...
by pension-admin | Jul 20, 2015 | Featured Articles, Pension funds, Retirement planning
The maintenance act in South Africa makes allowance for a retirement benefit to be split in a divorce. There are only 3 Acts which make it possible for a court to rule on the division of a pension benefit, the Maintenance Act, the income tax act and pension funds act,...
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