A mattress or the PIC – who invests better?
The PIC may have promised the public a raft of reforms, but its investment record over the past decade shows value destruction on a…
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Only 6% of South Africans are on track for retirement. The question is no longer when you’ll retire, but how. That’s something you can…
Withdrawal syndrome
Having raked in billions from the two-pot withdrawal frenzy, Treasury is now thinking of enabling people to access their once-untouchable retirement pot…
Municipal meltdown: Now it’s workers’ pensions at risk
South Africa’s municipalities are in arrears with employee pension payments, underscoring a huge governance problem at the local level…
House arrest: How the GEPF lost out
The Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) claims its 4.9% return for 2024 is “satisfactory”. It’s not. With too much of its portfolio invested in…
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From buy to bye: FirstRand’s R17.7bn UK bungle
Aldermore was supposed to be an ‘ideal platform’ through which…
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The sale of Jetro Restaurant Depot for $29.1bn is testament…
Sanell Aggenbach’s beautiful, unsettling take on a fractured world
‘NeoNature’ at Everard Read Joburg sees Sanell Aggenbach explore truth,…
Will the conflict in Lebanon destroy the US-Iran ceasefire? Maybe, but it was already shaky
Unless the US can bring Israel into line and convince…
