Industry Updates
Beware of blow to group disability benefits as employers cut back
Many employers are reducing disability benefits, which could potentially leave members underinsured.
Sanlam Employee Benefits Wins FIA Product Supplier of the Year Award for 2018
This is the sixth time over the past eight years that Sanlam has achieved this distinction!
Umbrella funds opening up
Umbrella retirement funds will disclose the costs they charge employers and members in a standardised way from March 2019.
Will your pension fund provide adequate advice when you resign or retire?
Retirement benefits counselling, if implemented in the spirit of the legislation, provides the most practical means to empower fund members to make better financial decisions.
Empowering Insights For Generations to come
It has been 37 years when the Sanlam Benchmark research was founded. The Sanlam Benchmark Symposium is one of the most important events on the annual calendar of the retirement funding industry as the latest Sanlam Benchmark research insights are openly shared with a view to enabling stakeholders to improve retirement outcomes.
Why haven’t we had this before?
Amendments to the Pensions Fund Act, which have generally become known as ‘the default regulations’, place a number of new requirements on fund trustees.