Can you cash in your South African living annuity?
As a South African planning for retirement, you’ve been diligently stashing cash into a pension, provident, preservation or retirement annuity fund for most of your working life. Buying a living annuity marks the transition from saving towards retirement to drawing...
Don’t leave your RA in SA – how inflation eats away at your retirement income
For many South Africans, inflation isn’t something they think about often beyond hearing it mentioned occasionally on the news. However, the impact of inflation on our financial lives is something that we should be paying more attention to – especially when it...
Five things you might not know about living annuities
If you have a retirement annuity or pension fund, you’re going to need to know about living annuities at some point in the future. This is because when you retire, it is compulsory to spend at least two thirds of your retirement savings on an annuity if your fund...