Employee Benefits / General

Meaningful employee financial literacy requires going beyond default regulations

The default retirement fund regulations introduced in March this year are aimed at supporting members of retirement funds to make better decisions at various points during their working lives, ultimately helping them to be financially independent when they retire. Intended as an important enabler of this is the introduction of compulsory benefit counselling services, which need to be offered to retirement fund members by the fund.

Group employee benefits, A win-win for employer and employee

Maintaining and retaining happy employees has become increasingly important to a company’s bottom line. Studies show that happy employees can be up to 20% more productive than those that are discontented. In tough economic times, companies cannot afford to ignore these potential rewards.

Financial resilience is the order of the day

In November 2018, Dawie de Villiers left Sanlam EB to join Alexander Forbes. He was replaced by Jocelyn Hathaway who is the Acting CEO of Sanlam EB.

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