Persfin News Archive
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- Too many excuses for the Ombud to swallow
- A decade of good advice
- Ten years of minding your business
- Lawyers find holes in RA reparations deal
- Proposals for radical redesign of medical scheme benefits
- Tax law change a threat to dividend income funds
- You pay the price for lying
- Alexander Forbes plundered pension funds
- 'Not lawful' practice hurts confidence
- Deal will benefit 'half' of penalised RA fund members
- Old Mutual told to pay after medical scheme halts baby's hospital care
- Pension funds win R200m case against administrator
- Come clean about secret profits or face the music, FSB tells administrators
- Truth that hurts can also herald healing
- Life assurance revolution is coming
- Alexander Forbes starts review of bulking practices
- New life assurer doesn't need a licence, says FSB
- Our writers' words are worthy
- New rules give you more clarity
- Alexander Forbes made its 'not lawful' profits from 1996
- Secret profits can be made in many ways
- Wake up and put consumers first, life industry told
- Ombudsman secures R250 000 for widow despite non-disclosure
- Buck stops with your trustees
- You should have a say in how your pension is invested
- Equity party is set to continue'
- Conservative investors miss out, but it will end in tears for the love-struck
- Report on bank charges may herald relief for you
- Something is being done to stop the rot
- 'One-stop-shop' plan holds funds in a costly embrace
- Alexander Forbes spreads its tentacles wide
- Good corporate governance is at the heart of the issue
- Eliminating debt is the best investment
- Eliminating debt is the best investment
- FSB makes trustee training a priority
- Court puts retrenched Transnet pensioners' benefits back on track
- Widow loses bid to claim R800 000 for 'poor' life cover advice
- Maintenance decision raises issues
- Alexander Forbes caught creaming off profits again
- Company's lawyers queried legality of imprest system
- Discovery medical aid says it's fighting fit
- Taxing times ahead
- Spend now, retire poor later
- Independent consultants are best defence
- Record investments in unit trusts buoy equity boom
- We win! Alexander Forbes in R380m payback
- State pension fund to turn up heat on corporate SA
- Trustee told to pay member's widow
- Complaints to credit ombud double
- Ruling smooths way for 'with profit' claims
- SARS extends online tax return facility
- Latest on bulking
- SA consumers find safety in new credit act
- Home loans feeding frenzy
- Now Ngalwana tackles the 'with profit' investments
- Be careful about what powers you sign away
- Tax return deadline
- War over bank charges in offing
- Parliament turns spotlight on Alexander Forbes's secret profits
- Train trustees to ask the right questions
- Prudence is the virtue of the moment
- FSB pulls administrator's licence
- Authorities to lay down the law to service providers
- Ngalwana raps Sanlam fund for fees on replacement policy
- Errant brokers get a roasting from Pillai
- FNB owes ex-Saambou clients R3 billion - claim
- Ngalwana asks for advice on whether members can switch RA funds
- Masobe lashes at scheme trustees
- Virgin foray into credit card market is good news for us
- Tax deadline
- Banks 'fail' to protect online clients
- Funds still in the dark over looming treasury reforms
- Another attempt to lead trustees astray
- Fedbond property sales may mean investors' wait for their capital is over
- FSB imposes tribunals on funds hiding pension surplus
- Schemes grapple with providing expensive life-saving drugs
- Registrar warns defiant trustees
- Multi-level timeshare marketing is no holiday
- Volatility part of the equity 'ride'
- Crooked broker loses appeal against decision to deny him a licence
- Current conditions make investing offshore an attractive option
- Figures separate the hype from reality
- Reform of financial industry key to creating savings culture
- Era of consumer rights puts actuaries under the microscope
- We need more clarity on bonus products
- Contributions: FSB lays charges over unpaid R11m
- 'Tardiness on derivatives law limits SA investor choice'
- Personal Finance pressure sways assurers
- Schemes told to apply minimum benefits and waiting periods fairly
- Sanlam lifts tax burden on endowments
- Topaz range offers committed and flexible investment options
- Browbeating everyone will solve nothing
- Main benefit of fixing home loan is a sense of certainty
- Pillai stamps out fee-driven advice
- Pillai rules for pensioners burnt by Leaderguard
- Medical subsidy victory may not set precedent
- Your best interests must be met
- Assurers trying to bypass' Ngalwana
- Old Mutual acting in policyholders' best interests' by appealing against rulings
- Top-end medical cover under threat


