Beyond the hit rate: Making the best investment ideas count
Successful investing is often associated with making perfect decisions, yet even the most accomplished investors can be wrong from time to time. Long-term investment outcomes are driven less by perfection and more by ensuring that the best ideas are backed with conviction and enough time to influence long-term returns.
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How much is enough to contribute to retirement?
Starting early, investing appropriately and remaining invested are key to achieving a comfortable retirement. But contribution levels are also critical. Kyle...
The in-between years: investing for retirement as careers and lives grow
As careers progress and lives take shape, investing for retirement can feel easy to defer. This in‑between phase – typically your 30s and 40s, when you are n...
Two laws, one obligation: Safeguarding retirement fund contributions
Paying over retirement fund contributions is a core obligation for any employer who offers a retirement fund arrangement. Recent regulatory changes mean that...
Taxation of retirement lump sums and living annuity income for non-residents
Investors who emigrate are often surprised by the complexity involved in accessing their existing retirement investments after they have ceased to be South...
The cost of chasing perfection when investing – with Dr Thomas Curran
What if perfectionism is costing us more than we realise? Not just in career progression, mental health and life, but in investment decision-making too. In t...
The role of group risk in employee benefits
Drawing from a panel discussion at our annual Through the noise retirement benefits conference in September, Ielyaas Gamiet, manager in the Group Savings and...
Group risk: Where are we today and where to next?
The group risk insurance landscape has evolved significantly in recent years, influenced by both global events and local developments. Ielyaas Gamiet, manage...