As you plan your financial migration as part of your permanent relocation from South Africa, you’re probably wondering what you should do with your retirement annuity. It’s a big decision…
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Retirement annuities are a popular retirement planning option in South Africa. According to the South African Reserve Bank, assets in retirement annuities totaled R2.9 trillion at the end of June…
Most South Africans started paying into their retirement annuities long before they even considered emigrating, with the plan to have enough savings squirreled away to see them through as they…
If you’re a South African living overseas, it’s more than likely that your retirement annuity is one of the things you left behind when you relocated. You might now find…
The South African Reserve Bank recently confirmed that they are investigating the possibility of launching a “digital rand” and that this research should be complete sometime next year. A rising…
If you have been doing some research into how emigration impacts on retirement annuities in South Africa, you will probably have stumbled across the fact that most South Africans end…
The rules are changing. In 2021 the formal process of financial emigration through the South African Reserve Bank will be phased out. What does this mean? It means that South…
South Africans currently living abroad have until 28 February 2021 to use formal emigration as an immediate means by which to access their retirement annuities early. Thereafter expats will have…
South Africans living and working abroad should take note of upcoming tax and exchange control amendments that could potentially affect tax affairs and finances from next year. In case you…
South Africans all over the world are feeling the financial pressure caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Most people have had their hours reduced, their pay cut and many are facing…