Retirement funds
One of the consequences of the high HIV rate in South Africa is that there are many minors without parents who live with aunts, uncles, grandparents and foster parents. This is such a common occurrence that one often forgets the serious legal issue that this gives rise to: a child with no guardian.
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Fairheads News
It has been another challenging year in the financial services industry, requiring a strong focus on efficiencies and communication.
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Fairheads News | Retirement funds
Since the change of age of majority in 2007 in the Children’s Act, it has become a problem in beneficiary funds to pay lump sums to 18 year olds.
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Fairheads News | Retirement funds
The world since 2008:
The world economy faced recession and possibly depression in the aftermath of the 2008 financial market crisis. Governments had continued to grow into strong tax revenues collected in the “good” years preceding 2008 and when the recession came, by and large all of them were faced with falling revenues and elevated expenditure levels and recently instituted social programmes. This led to an increase in fiscal deficits and reduced scope for governments to intervene in their economies in an attempt to re-stimulate them.
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Fairheads News
Fairheads Benefit Services’ philosophy on people development is very simple – we empower our staff to do their work to the best of their ability so that we can meet our strategic imperative of giving our clients a high level of service.
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Fairheads News
Fairheads’ popular new member newsletter, called ‘Let’s Talk!’ published its second edition a few weeks ago and has been distributed i.a. at the guardian roadshows. Articles are relevant to guardians and caregivers, as well as to teenagers. This edition has three languages – English, Sotho and Zulu.
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Fairheads News | Events
The annual guardian roadshow by Fairheads and its beneficiary funds and umbrella trusts started in August this year. This project runs over 15 weeks, from 16 August until 30 November.
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