The concept of Life Rights in real estate has become a popular retirement model across the globe.
Last week National Treasury announced that it was postponing the the implementation of the proposed two-pot pension fund system by a year, following public consultations ...
The amendments to Regulation 28 of the Pension Funds Act at the beginning of the year were warmly welcomed by local private equity players.
According to media reports mutual societies are enjoying a renaissance in the financial services sector in some parts of the world.
Predicting investment risk is challenging for a plethora of reasons, including the complexity of markets, the uncertainty factor, and of course basic human behaviour, ...
An application has been made to the High Court of South Africa in the Western Cape by a small CIPC-registered private company, called HoldSA, to have well-known ...
If you’ve never heard of the term Girl Math, neither have I until recently. It is a social media trend where young women (and Generation Z in particular) justify ...
It is the last week of wills month, which is an annual awareness campaign around a very important part of estate planning. Planning one’s own mortality is often ...
The Government Employees Pension Fund chairperson Dondo Mogajane launched the GEPF’s Transformation Policy last week, marking a watershed move for economic transformation ...
Woolworths recently announced the launch of a comprehensive pet insurance product, WPetInsure, which became available in mid-August 2023. ...
There is very little which is not taxed in South Africa, from sales to sins, even savings. As a matter of fact, the South African tax system is structured in such ...
Each year, global financial planning professionals come together for World Financial Planning Day to help raise awareness of the value of financial planning and ...
At last month’s South African Institute of Taxation Tax Indaba, trusts were on the agenda again. And the South African Revenue Service (Sars) new measures of ensuring ...
Rich people have always used their equity portfolios to tap into cheap loans and avoid large tax bills.
Women’s month has come and gone, but their financial deposition has not. According to the latest Experian Consumer Default Index (CDIx) for the second quarter, South ...
Sweden’s government said this week it planned to abolish a tax on plastic bags as of November 2024, a move heavily criticised by environmental groups. “We’re convinced ...
RANTS AND CENTS: Thinking that simply implementing a tax will reach some sustainability target or health benefit in a few years is an absolute fallacy, writes Ruan ...
It is National Wills Week, the annual national awareness campaign championed by the law society, that looks into one very important part of estate planning - having ...
OPINION: South African consumers have become so over-indebted that any additional credit lines are starting to run very thin, but not all hope should be lost as ...
Legendary investor and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett turned 93 this year, and according to Forbes, he is worth $106 billion. That means on average he’s ...
According to the National Credit Regulator’s (NCR) Credit Bureau Monitor for March 2023, South Africa currently has 27. 07 million credit active consumers with 90. ...
I still have so many questions around the South African Reserve Bank’s (Sarb) year-long investigation and report into the controversial Phala Phala scandal.
In March, reached the 20 million clients milestone and it now owns the biggest market share compared to older banks. We have Francois Viviers, Group Executive: Marketing ...
RANTS AND CENTS: I still have so many questions around the South African Reserve Bank’s year-long investigation and report into the controversial Phala Phala scandal, ...
When the proposal to regulate religious practitioners in South Africa was put forward by the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, ...