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Responsible investing toolkit for retirement fund trusteesPublished: Wed, 28 Mar 12 The majority of Southern African retirement funds will be well equipped to integrate environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) factors into their investment decisions within the next two years.
The required training programmes and practical tools to help principal officers and trustees of retirement ...
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Retirement savings should be enforcedPublished: Tue, 27 Mar 12 Relying solely on individuals to discipline themselves to save for retirement is unrealistic. Employers, and government will therefore have to play their part in enforcing savings, says Marius Fenwick, Chief Operating Officer of Mazars Financial Services.
Fenwick welcomes certain aspects of government’s ...
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Pensioners not immune to poorly performing global economyPublished: Tue, 27 Mar 12 Much has been written about the impact of 2008 and its aftermath on those actively employed and saving for retirement. Not much has however been written about pensioners, especially those who retired in the period when double digit returns were the norm – and who became accustomed to a lifestyle based on high ...
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FIA welcomes tougher measures to protect investorsPublished: Tue, 27 Mar 12 The Financial Intermediaries Association of Southern African (FIA) welcomes the inclusion of provisions for stronger actions to protect the investments of consumers proposed in the draft Financial Services Laws General Amendment Bill, as a necessary step towards enhancing the integrity of the South African financial ...
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Socially Responsible Investing to become key issue for retirement fundsPublished: Tue, 27 Mar 12 Social Responsible Investing (SRI), or Responsible Investing (RI) as it is now known, will become a larger focus for government in the near future and may even become regulated in the retirement industry. This is according to Windall Bekker, Head of Investment Consulting at OMAC Actuaries & Consultants, who says ...
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Infrastructure - Zoom from ZumaPublished: Mon, 26 Mar 12
Allan Greenblo
Editorial Director
Today’s Trustee
Pension funds can play a most useful role in helping to finance the developmental priorities he’s identified.
When the Head of State speaks, promises to ...
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Monetary policy and the South African landscapePublished: Fri, 16 Mar 12 By Samantha Matthew, Investment Analyst, Glacier by Sanlam
The South African economic landscape is an ever changing one that in recent months seems to be at the mercy of external global market trends and fears. Whether the current monetary policy framework of inflation-targeting approach is the best for South ...
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Is your arrangement with your domestic worker legal?Published: Fri, 16 Mar 12 The latest national census is expected to confirm that there are approximately 900 000 domestic workers in South Africa. Department of Labour legislation is clear that domestics working for more than 24 hours per month require a formal contract with their employers, should be registered with the Unemployment Insurance ...
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Fighting corruption to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGS)Published: Thu, 15 Mar 12 Terry Booysen
CEO: CGF Research Institute (Pty) Ltd
Crime experts, economists and NGOs were recently not surprised that an estimated R30 billion was being lost annually by South African taxpayers due to graft, incompetence and negligence in the public service. Corruption is fast becoming pervasive ...
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Retirement annuities now even more attractivePublished: Wed, 14 Mar 12 The recent increase in dividends tax to 15% from 1 April 2012 will make retirement annuities an even more attractive way to save for the long term, says Louis van der Merwe, financial planner at Mazars Financial Services.
Because returns inside retirement funds, including RAs, are exempt from Dividend With-holding ...
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Trustees taking pension fund reins must stay focused on fundamental rolePublished: Tue, 13 Mar 12 Focus on investment strategies should not distract from other responsibilities
Johannesburg - Trustees of pension funds should stay focused on their core responsibilities to fund members even though they have had to become much more involved in investment strategies and decisions in recent months.
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Healthy life industry attracts strong new premium incomePublished: Tue, 13 Mar 12 The South African life insurance industry held record assets of R1. 45-trillion at the end of 2011, an increase of 13% from the R1. 28-trillion held at the end of 2010.
Releasing the 2011 sales statistics for the South African long-term insurance industry, Peter Dempsey, deputy CEO of the Association for Savings ...
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‘Heads-up’ for directors in the cloudPublished: Tue, 13 Mar 12 Terry Booysen
CEO: CGF Research Institute (Pty) Ltd
There’s much that can be said about the manner in which members of a board are ‘wired’, and it does not take much to recognise those directors who embrace technology and those who don’t. Interestingly, as technology races ...
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SA actuary achieves international milestone in risk managementPublished: Mon, 12 Mar 12 South Africa has produced the world’s 1 000th actuary to formally qualify as a Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary (CERA). Actuaries with this internationally recognised qualification have the sought after skill to devise and implement effective risk management strategies across organisations.
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