My favourite to despise financial commentator, MH for anonymity reasons, was up to his old tricks this week with another article trashing SA in favour of offshore investing. He is confident and outspoken in his view, which reminds me of
Sustainable income drawdown
Following the income thread of my previous article, this week I will cover sustainable income drawdown rules for retirees. Below is the FSCA guidelines for sustainable income drawdown rates for living annuity pensioners. The same drawdown rates would apply to
Living Annuity and Death
Never a topic we like to discuss but dying with a living annuity has some important planning considerations, which I will briefly cover in this week’s article. Living annuity contracts allow the retiree to bypass his / her estate on
A more sustainable provision for retirement
Living Annuities are currently under the spotlight and likely to be blamed for poor retirement outcomes. However, this is like blaming traffic fatalities on the invention of the motor vehicle. Taking a step back living annuities have all but replaced
Avoid Tax Legally
The current rules governing the taxation of retirement funds provides for a legal tax avoidance scheme for the very wealthy to consider. This is why: Retirement funds pay no tax; that is no income, capital gain or dividend tax Non-tax