The reality is that more than half of today’s pensioners and active retirement fund members haven’t done enough to ensure a comfortable retirement.
Fund managers have to be proficient in the art of ensuring benchmark beating returns.
Too little is known about its scope to abandon ownership of private insurance, say practitioners.
It makes sense to invest offshore but only to balance your portfolio and take advantage of returns on investment, analysts say.
But don’t bank on currency variations to give you a good return.
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/ 14 October 2010
Research on the subject is limited but there are several pointers you can use.
The local investment industry is heavily slanted towards a fee-based investment paradigm.
Capital appreciation is great, but over 20 years the bulk value will flow from dividend payments.
Merger and acquisition activity ground to a halt during the recession, but the outlook is improving.
If South Africa wants to enjoy sustained economic growth, we must address our woeful savings
culture, writes <b>Gareth Stokes</b>.