I think SARS started it all with their 21 working day turnaround times for things like “verification of supporting documents”. Or 30 working days turnaround for disputes! And they claim to be "at your service"? Unfortunately, it hasn’t taken long for
A short while back, we wrote about what we see as the iniquitous selling of funeral policies to the poor and vulnerable. It's our view that there's a significantly better way to do it through the use of a properly underwritten whole-of-life policy.
One of the “compulsory” forms of insurance that people with bonds have to have is Home Owners Insurance (HOI). This is insurance that covers the cost of replacing the building if it is destroyed through things like fire and floods. Usually the bank t
I remember, just after 9/11, listening to Clem Sunter speak about the choices that America had in response to the events that had just unfolded. Essentially, they had two choices, and the choice they made would define their future. The choices w
As human beings, emotions often dictate our behaviour. One of our dominating emotions (if we are honest with ourselves) is fear. Fear of loss, fear of being hurt, fear of being poor, fear of missing out, fear of being sick, fear of clowns, fear of ne
A client of mine presented a potential dilemma to me. He has a living annuity through Liberty Life but also has the bulk of his living annuity funds on a LISP platform. He was wanting to move the Liberty one to the LISP and consolidate his investment
I was at a workshop session recently where the following quote was mentioned "Finance will be the most disrupted industry in the next 10 years". The quote was attributed to Peter Diamandis, the executive chairman and co-founder of Singularity Univers
It was while shaving one morning recently that Occam’s razor came to mind. William of Occam was a 14th century Franciscan Friar who studied logic and is credited as the first person to make known the “law of briefness”. In short he said that when fac
There seems to be quite a bit of activity around the new TFSA accounts and yet it seems to be by all the "wrong" people. By this I mean that the people who seem to be getting excited are not the actual intended beneficiaries...we seem to be forgettin
Got an email from a client whose domestic worker has ±R50k saved in a unit trust fund and who wants to know if her (minor) kids would be able to get the funds if she dies. The short answer is no, but this is not helpful. Not only would the kids (n
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