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    Omanyano ovanhu koikundaneki yomalungula kashili paveta, Commisiner Sakaria takunghilile Veronika Haulenga

retirement planning

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South Africa

South Africa is changing its retirement rules to help boost country savings: how it will work

      By Adrian Saville, University of Pretoria     A study of 160 countries, spanning 60 years of economic history, establishes that there is no country that has been able to transition from “poor to prosperous” without a high savings rate. And that households - in other words you and me - are one of the most important contributors to a country’s overall level of savings rate. Yet, […]

todayJuly 29, 2024 21

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Opinion Pieces

Understanding Preservation Funds

    A preservation fund is a savings vehicle into which you can transfer your retirement savings, from a retirement fund (pension or provident fund), with the aim of preserving funds for your financial well-being in retirement.  This vehicle is primarily used when people resign or change jobs, which then becomes a tax-free transfer from your existing retirement fund into a preservation fund of your choice. Preservation can either be […]

todayJuly 22, 2024 7

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Namibia

Government Institutions Pension Fund increases pension and disability income benefits

The Government Institutions Pension Fund announced pension and disability income benefits increases. The Board of Trustees took this decision after a thorough actuarial due diligence process and in consideration of various factors such as the inflation rate, cost of living, reasonable benefit expectations of its active annuitants, affordability on the part of the Fund and the average annual return over the last five years, as well as the current and […]

todayApril 29, 2024 40

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Opinion Pieces

Can I borrow from my pension?

By Amos Kambonde, Manager Marketing Services at the Government Institutions Pension Fund The question of whether to borrow from one’s pension or not is one of the questions many members of pension funds ask regularly. Section 19(5) of the Pension Fund Act, 1956 (Act No. 24 of 1956) makes provision for members of pension funds to borrow either directly or against their pension fund savings for the purpose of purchasing […]

todayNovember 30, 2023 21

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