n Personal Finance Newsletter - Will ETF retirement annuities cause a shake-up? : retirement planning

Abstract

With charges in the retirement industry under the microscope, and low-cost products entering the market, the landscape is set to change substantially. Although some industry commentators have labelled National Treasury's discussion paper on charges as "weak" - for example, comparing South Africa's retirement fund industry to that in countries with different structures and not normalising its data for the discrepancy - others have lauded it as "brilliant".