Rational Perspective

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Far too many South Africans grow old with absolutely no provision for retirement. Our government has become increasingly serious about encouraging people to save for old age by providing tax benefits to those who do save and rather harsh penalties to those who try to access the money early. One of these penalties is levied via the taxation of lumpsum benefits taken prematurely from a retirement fund whereby the penalty is actually quite onerous and means that you forfeit taking a very valuable and quite large tax free lumpsum when you do retire. Some of the other unintended consequences of dipping into your retirement funding is also a loss of capital growth and the power of compounding and all those good things that come to patient investors. The bottom line from Denver Keswell, senior legal advisor at Nedgroup Investments is to try and avoid touching your retirement fund prior to retirement. - Candice Paine See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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South Africa's National Treasury opened the gates for tax free investing on 1 March 2015. This is possibly the most generous gesture investors have ever received from government as ALL the returns on your money saved, be it interest, dividends or capital gains will be delivered to you free of taxation. It is a shame government hasn't put more effort behind promoting the really good things they do like this initiative, but industry has recognised the opportunity for investors and is spreading the word. In this special podcast Helena Conradie, CEO of low cost index tracker SATRIX speaks to Candice Paine about the ins and outs of these Tax Free Savings Accounts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Futuregrowth manages five fixed interest unit trusts for Old Mutual. Each fund serves a very different purpose depending on the needs of the investor. Criteria like risk, volatility, duration and security selection all have an impact on how the portfolio will behave. Candice Paine spoke to Michael van Rensburg, portfolio manager with Futuregrowth Asset Management, to find out when?, why? and how? you distinguish between fixed interest funds. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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China is a nation in transition. It's trying to move from low cost, low value-add exports and state-financed construction into a provider of high value industries and services and increased domestic consumption. And with this change comes some inevitable risks borne out of a precarious balancing act between debt, property, a strong currency and global demand (where have we heard this before?). Neal Smith, fund manager at SIM Global explains to us why they still see opportunity in the nation come to be known as the global growth engine. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.