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No need for South Africans to fear retirement fund reforms

20 August 2014

Retirement fund members’ fears about Government’s proposed retirement reforms need to be allayed.

Retirement reforms – the concept of preservation

20 August 2014

The retirement fund industry is facing several important changes, known as retirement fund reforms, first introduced by National Treasury in 2004. The modifications are aimed at transforming the South African retirement fund system to make it more effective and efficient. A certain degree of scepticism may have crept into the debate, but the reforms have been designed to protect pension and provident fund members, ensuring that they are in a better position to retire comfortably.

Give workers the facts behind proposed retirement reforms

19 August 2014

Spreading unsubstantiated rumours around the nationalisation of pension funds is reckless and harmful to workers who are said to be resigning in mass to obtain their pension money for fear that government’s proposed retirement reforms will see their savings expropriated.