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Jun 26, 20223 min read
Why a retirement annuity is a good idea
For many years retirement annuities (RAs) have formed part of investors’ retirement savings plans. They’re often the first investment...
Jun 26, 20224 min read
Tracing People, helping families
Over the past six months, Fairheads has developed another value-add service to our list of growing products – tracing services. In...
Jun 26, 20223 min read
A new breed of asset managers
What does the economic downturn mean for the asset management sector and how should we respond? The asset management industry is facing...
Jun 26, 20225 min read
Hybrid annuities: Some of the choices
The choice of hybrid annuities is growing all the time. They offer a number of choices combining investment-linked living annuities...
Jun 26, 20223 min read
Change your living annuity, not your drawdown rate
The relatively poor market returns over the last five years, coupled with the devastating crash in March this year, has exposed the risks...
Jun 26, 20227 min read
Managing your living annuity in an uncertain world
In response to the dramatic impact that measures to contain COVID-19 have had on asset prices, National Treasury has announced temporary...
Jun 26, 20225 min read
COVID 19: National Treasury grants temporary relief on living annuity draw down percentages
On 1 June 2020 the Government Gazette was published allowing changes to the drawdown percentage on living annuities to between 0.5% and...
Jun 26, 20225 min read
Making difficult financial decisions during difficult times
Extraordinary times South Africa, and indeed the entire world, is finding itself in an unprecedented situation of having to deal with a...