When you start off your expat journey, retiring might be the furthest thing from your mind. But if you spend a lot of your life working in a foreign country,…
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A few years ago South Africans weren’t allowed to transfer the proceeds of their retirement annuities offshore before age 55. In 2008, however, a change in tax legislation made it…
Emigrating from South Africa presents a host of novel challenges – you’ll find you have to acquaint yourself with regulations, procedures and terminology you’d never have had to concern yourself…
Semeyi Zake of Business Day recently interviewed finglobal.com CEO, Ryno Viljoen, to discuss some of the options available to South African emigrants around their retirement savings as well as the…
Finances are always top of mind when you’re immigrating, unless you’re in the lucky position of moving to a country with a weaker currency than the one you’re currently residing…
We all know the rules of retirement savings in South Africa – that is, you need to keep it in your retirement fund until the day you retire. And of…
Emigrating from South Africa could be a challenging experience – the administration and organisation involved is a huge and laborious task. So it’s no surprise that after getting the green…
If you’ve emigrated from South Africa, there’s a chance that you have unclaimed benefits back home. The Financial Services Board (FSB) announced on 19 August 2015 that there is over…
When it comes to transferring retirement annuities and pension funds abroad, most South Africans are none the wiser. But this is not really surprising, given that the age of emigration…
Can you list the number of things you have spent your money on while living in South Africa? A home, car, food, clothing, and what else? Once you move to…