Jaya Leibowitz
Articles by Jaya Leibowitz
Endowments vs sinking funds: Which product is better suited for your needs?
Endowments and sinking funds are useful financial products for efficient tax and estate planning. However, they are relatively complex and can be difficult t...
Part 2 (updated): The two-pot system – what we know for now
There has been a lot of noise in the past few months about the changes that are being made to the South African retirement system. In part 2 of our Two-pot...
Part 3 (updated): The two-pot system and your savings withdrawal benefit
In part 3 of our Two-pot chapter, Jaya Leibowitz reminds us not to lose sight of the importance of preserving retirement savings, and cautions investors...
Get your affairs in order during National Wills Week
It is difficult to confront our mortality, but the fact is that we are all going to die one day and leave our loved ones behind. As a result, it is important...
Contextualising retirement reforms in South Africa
National Treasury has proposed retirement reforms aimed at enabling retirement savers to better balance short- and long-term needs and boosting the governanc...
Understand the new rules around citizenship, exchange control and tax residency
The concept of “emigration”, as recognised by the Financial Surveillance Department of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB), has been phased out, with effec...
Diminished mental capacity: What happens to a person's investments?
Investors are generally unaware of the consequences of impaired mental capacity, resulting from neurocognitive disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, when it...
