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Avoid clients’ frustrations with living annuities

01 December 2014

While government is sitting and pondering the future of its retirement reform programme, the South African retirement industry is in a state of flux as the public try to figure out the best investment to suit their future retirement needs.

SEB introduces Inflation Annuity Tracker to assist retirees

26 November 2013

Sanlam Employee Benefits has launched an investment portfolio which assists members approaching retirement with converting their defined contribution lump sum into an income for retirement. The Inflation Annuity Tracker portfolio tracks changes in the relative cost of an inflation-linked annuity caused by changes in interest rates and is an attempt by Sanlam to improve the prospects of South Africa’s retirees, more than half of whom cannot make ends meet (source: Sanlam Benchmark Survey 2013).

For some RA policy holders a rising market is not all good news

04 June 2013

It’s not often that a rising market comes with negative association. After all, exposure to market growth logically leads to growth in your investment value.

Industry-first: Liberty brings retirees a Flexible Annuity that provides them with more options

05 June 2012

Reaching retirement is an exciting time of life; this is when you can finally take the time out to reward yourself with the finer things in life and look forward to spending quality time with your family and possibly your grandchildren. But it can also be

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Low annuity rates are prompting retirees to take their pensions out of the UK - deVere Group

14 May 2012

Reward your future self with your current standard of living

06 December 2011

Investing in a living annuity can ensure a stress-free retirement

23 November 2011

Take the pain now for a better long term future: living annuity survival rate shock

08 July 2011

Living annuities for life: the devil is in the asset allocation detail

24 June 2011

When to annuitise - that is the question

15 February 2011

Credibility crisis looms for living annuities – Imara

09 November 2010

The great risk to a living annuity lies with capital erosion, not return volatility

28 October 2010

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