by pension-admin | Oct 19, 2011 | Featured Articles, Retirement Annuities
In uncertain financial times, people look to a guaranteed income when they retire and a guaranteed annuity is an option to consider. Obviously when you seek guarantees on anything, you will need to sacrifice something in order to get that guarantee. Guaranteed...
by pension-admin | Oct 3, 2011 | Featured Articles, Retirement Annuities
It should be noted first off that Living Annuities are soon to be renamed Retirement Income Drawdown Accounts for those who have not heard the term in the Industry just yet. When you retire and you receive your proceeds from your pension fund, you are obliged to...
by pension-admin | May 18, 2011 | Retirement Annuities
Living annuities are designed to produce sufficient income for you during your retirement to enable you to continue living in the manner to which you have become accustomed, to maintain this level of income up until your death and to provide long term growth. The key...
by pension-admin | Mar 28, 2011 | Featured Articles, Financial planners, Statutory bodies
The overwhelming message at the Asisa convention was that retirement savings are for retirement and the ability to withdraw money earmarked for retirement early is going to be made more difficult in the coming months through legislation. Provident funds are to be...
by pension-admin | Feb 14, 2011 | Featured Articles, Retirement Annuities
Annuities are seen as the savings accounts for the future but what exactly is a fixed annuity? A fixed annuity is an investment that guarantees you a future income. The investments underlying the fixed annuity are very low risk investments made by the financial...