By Mariette Janse van Rensburg I spoke to a lady on the phone yesterday, desperate for help. The past 18 months she’s been trying to cash in her retirement annuity…
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Many South African expats left their pensions, policies and other financial assets behind when they upped and offed to go live and work abroad – for ‘good’ reason. There was…
Imagine if you will. You’re a South African family living in Sydney, Texas, London, Ontario or Auckland. Mom, Dad and kids – all happily settled in new home, new schools…
“The question isn’t at what age I want to retire; it’s at what income.” George Foreman, Two-Time Boxing Heavyweight Champion of the World. Expats who have not financially emigrated from…
South African expats living abroad and holding retirement annuities back home have two choices: When paying a landlord’s mortgage because you’re living in his rental accommodation – cash-in your policies…
A self-made millionaire once told me …“I don’t buy property to sell – I buy property to rent” … after he bought his first home he leveraged the property to…
Cost of living, coupled with longer life expectancy and the continuing depreciation of the South African Rand relative to major international currencies is putting a different spin on retirement for…
Given this depreciation trend the return of an expat’s South African based retirement investment – relative to major world currencies – will simply continue to diminish in value and significance….
South Africans are lekker people and they live and work in really lekker places – London, New York, Perth, Ontario to name but a few… Social media like Facebook, Skype,…
It makes little sense to leave your retirement annuities in South Africa when considering emigration. 1. Move your South African retirement annuities offshore It makes little sense to leave your…