• I would like to
    • Covid-19 toolkit
    • Signup Newsletter
    • Schedule an appointment
    • Go to hospital
    • Deal with an accident
    • Make a Claim
    • Invest >
      • Investment needs analysis
      • Child education fund >
        • Top 100 schools in South Africa
      • For retirement
      • For income in retirement
      • For capital growth
      • For a new car
      • For a new house
      • Offshore funds
    • Apply for insurance >
      • Life Insurance
      • Medical Aid
      • Car and Household Insurance
      • Business Insurance
    • Appoint Daberistic as broker
    • Promotions >
      • 2022 Millionaire Investment Plan
      • 2022 Half-Millionaire Investment Plan
    • Update my policy >
      • Investment >
        • Allan Gray Debit Order
      • Life insurance
      • Arrear Premiums
      • Business insurance
    • Make a Will
    • Set up a business
    • Get an accountant.
    • Get business tax advice
    • Get personal tax advice
    • Preferred Suppliers >
      • Panelbeaters
      • Doctors and dentists
      • Attorneys, Notaries, Conveyancers
    • Product news
    • Cancel Daberistic Services
  • Invest
    • Our fund selection process
    • Retirement annuity
    • Tax-free Investment Plan >
      • Apply for Tax-free Investment Account
    • Unit Trusts
    • Guaranteed Investments >
      • Guaranteed Investments Q&A
    • Preservation funds
    • Offshore
    • Education plan
    • Endowment
    • Participation Bond
    • Deposits
    • Business investment accounts
    • Private investment accounts
    • Exchange Traded Funds
    • Share investing
    • Personalised share portfolio
    • Retirement income
  • Retirement Funds
    • Starting a Fund - What to Consider
    • Retirement Funds - Your Rights
    • What is Regulation 28?
  • Health
    • Our services
    • Discovery Health >
      • How to Select a Discovery Medical Plan
      • 2022 Update
      • 2023 Update
      • Discovery Health Products
      • International Travel Benefit
    • Discovery Vitality >
      • 2022 Update
      • 2023 Update
    • Momentum Health >
      • Momentum Health Products
      • 2022 Update
      • 2023 Update
    • Bonitas >
      • 2022 Update
      • 2023 Update
    • Gap cover >
      • Discovery gap
      • Sirago >
        • 2022 Update
        • 2023 Update
    • FAQ >
      • Discovery COVID Vaccine Process
  • Life
    • Life insurance >
      • Life insurance special offer
    • Accidental cover
    • Income protection
    • Lump sum disability
    • Business Assurance
    • Severe Illness
  • Insure
    • About Short Term
    • Service Charter
    • Business Insurance >
      • Goods in Transit Insurance
      • Professional Insurance
    • Car / House Insurance
    • SASRIA
    • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Financial Coach
    • Blog
    • Personal Financial Planning >
      • Pocket Guide To Money
      • Setting goals
      • Budgeting and cashflow management
      • Consumer Protection Act
    • Retirement planning >
      • Retirement Q&A
    • Risk planning >
      • Retirement funds
    • Tax planning
    • Investment planning >
      • What are unit trusts?
      • Active and passive investing
      • Chasing fund performance may be hazardous to your wealth
      • Understanding risk on and risk off
    • Family trusts
    • Wills and estate planning >
      • Make a will
      • Administering an estate / Duties of an Executor
      • What the executor must do once appointed
    • Business planning
    • Frequently asked questions
  • Accounting & Tax
    • About us >
      • DAA Proatia Manual
    • Accounting
    • Tax >
      • 2022 South Africa Budget and Tax Guide
      • 2020 South Africa Budget and Tax Guide
      • 2019 South Africa Budget and Tax Guide
      • 2017 South Africa Budget and Tax Guide
    • Business Plan
    • Company Registration & Secretarial Services
    • Audit/Review/Compilation report
    • Frequently asked questions >
      • Establishing a Business in South Africa
  • About us
    • Who we are
    • What sets Daberistic apart
    • How we help our clients
    • Our clients
    • Community involvement
    • Company Documents >
      • Privacy Policy
      • Complaints Resolution Policy
      • Conflict Of Interest Policy
      • PAIA Manual
    • Disclosures >
      • POPIA Consent
      • Email Confidentiality Notice And Disclosure
    • Company News >
      • Heritage Day 2015
      • Mandela Day 2016
    • Daberistic Academy >
      • Car insurance rating factors
      • Investment seminars
      • Personal finance seminars
      • Workplace skills >
        • Sales Scripts
        • Client Communication
        • Stress Management
        • Industrial Relations
        • Leadership
        • Employee Benefits
        • Company Values
        • Tax
        • Commercial Insurance
        • Gap cover
        • Excel
        • Retirement -
        • Retirement Annuity &Provident Fund
        • Marketing and Branding
        • Broker Appointment
        • Telephone etiquette
        • Client service etiquette
      • Mini MBA
    • Careers >
      • Positions >
        • Healthcare Consultant/Business Development Manager
      • Questionnaires >
        • Pre-interview Elementary Test
        • Chinese Client Consultant Pre-interview Questionnaire
        • Short-term Insurance Administrator Pre-interview Questionnaire
        • HR and Finance Administrator Pre-interview Questionnaire
    • Contact us >
      • Cancellation
  • 我想要
    • 德博理财专栏
    • 查看旧德博理财专栏
    • 促销活动 >
      • 百万富翁投资计划
      • 半百万富翁投资计划
      • Fedgroup飞达参与分红债券
    • 申请新保险 >
      • 员工团体保险
      • 寿险/意外险报价资料表
      • 国际学生医疗保险2023
      • 商业保险
      • 医疗保险需求评估
      • 医疗保险申请
      • 加入活力健康计划
      • 投资 >
        • 投资方案报价
        • 孩子教育基金. >
          • 非洲排名前100高中
          • 南非高校排行榜
        • 为年老时存钱.
        • 闲钱投资.
        • 月领退休金.
        • 免税投资账户.
        • 投资型保单.
        • 股票.
        • 基金
        • 海外基金
        • 房地产基金.
        • 投资
      • 汽车保险报价
      • 店面投保
    • 现有保单管理 >
      • 保费没扣到
      • 在线税务证明申请表格
      • 人寿险/意外险保单管理
      • 医疗保险客服 >
        • 新生儿加保申请表格
        • 家属退保申请表格
        • 国际旅游医疗福利
        • Discovery医保怀孕生产幼儿福利
        • 下载Discovery医疗保险证明
        • 下载Discovery医保税务证明
        • Sirago附加险索赔提交
      • 投资账户管理
      • 产物保险管理
      • 客服满意度问卷
    • 申请索赔 >
      • 申请车险索赔
    • 住院
    • 常用专科医生名称中英文对照
    • 出车祸处理
    • 设立遗嘱 >
      • 遗嘱的生效和不生效
      • 遗嘱的处分
      • 遺囑執行人被任命後
    • 聘德博为经纪人
    • 非居民在南非开银行账户
    • 投资移民
    • 唐人街商铺联系方式
  • 财富管理
    • 如何选择投资产品
    • 企业投资账户
    • 私人投资账户
    • 孩子教育基金
    • 为年老时存钱 >
      • 退休需要認真金錢
    • 闲钱投资
    • 海外投资 >
      • 如何投资海外资产
      • 南非外汇管制规定
      • Investors Trust外幣投資
    • 免税投资帐户 >
      • 免税投资账户问答集(Q&A)
    • 月领退休金
    • 投资型保单
    • 基金 >
      • 如何挑选基金
    • 稳赢固定利率保单
  • 员工福利
    • 公司团体医疗保险Q&A
    • 员工福利Q&A
    • 公积金Provident Fund说明
    • 中小企业员工福利完整套餐
  • ​人寿保险
    • 为什么要购买人寿保险
    • 人寿保险的妙用
    • 人寿保险常见问题回答
    • 购买人寿保险流程
    • 美元人寿保险
    • 意外险
    • 特殊寿险产品
    • 重大疾病险 >
      • 身体健康检查重要指标
      • 全球癌症病例激增
      • 细数癌症之最
    • Sanlam意外险
    • Old Mutual绿光关怀计划.
  • 医疗保险
    • 南非的医疗保险介紹
    • 医疗保险Q&A 常见问题回答 >
      • Discovery COVID 疫苗注册
      • Discovery 非洲医疗福利
    • 如何选择医疗保险
    • Discovery医疗保险 2022更新摘要 >
      • Discovery医疗保险 2022 - 如何选择医保选项
    • Discovery医疗保险 2023更新摘要 >
      • Discovery医疗保险 2023 - 如何选择医保选项
    • Discovery Vitality活力健康计划 2023 >
      • 激活你的健活奖励
    • Bonitas医疗保险2023介绍
    • Momentum 2023
    • 医疗附加险 >
      • Discovery 附加险
      • Sirago 医疗附加险 2023 >
        • 医疗附加险法规改变
    • 紧急意外险
  • 财产险
    • 雇主责任保险
    • 建筑工程一切险
    • 商业火险
    • 车险
    • 暴动险 Sasria
    • 常见问题
  • 会计师事务所
    • 南非2021财政预算及税法
    • 南非2020财政预算及税法
    • 南非2019财政预算及税法
    • 南非2018财政预算及税法
    • 南非2017财政预算及税法
    • 南非2016财政预算及税法
    • 南非2015财政预算及税法
    • 南非2008财政预算及税法
  • 关于我们
    • 我们如何与众不同
    • 我們如何帮助客户 - 保险篇
    • 我們如何帮助客户 - 投资理财篇
    • 德博理财学院 >
      • 标准销售话术
Daberistic
  • I would like to
    • Covid-19 toolkit
    • Signup Newsletter
    • Schedule an appointment
    • Go to hospital
    • Deal with an accident
    • Make a Claim
    • Invest >
      • Investment needs analysis
      • Child education fund >
        • Top 100 schools in South Africa
      • For retirement
      • For income in retirement
      • For capital growth
      • For a new car
      • For a new house
      • Offshore funds
    • Apply for insurance >
      • Life Insurance
      • Medical Aid
      • Car and Household Insurance
      • Business Insurance
    • Appoint Daberistic as broker
    • Promotions >
      • 2022 Millionaire Investment Plan
      • 2022 Half-Millionaire Investment Plan
    • Update my policy >
      • Investment >
        • Allan Gray Debit Order
      • Life insurance
      • Arrear Premiums
      • Business insurance
    • Make a Will
    • Set up a business
    • Get an accountant.
    • Get business tax advice
    • Get personal tax advice
    • Preferred Suppliers >
      • Panelbeaters
      • Doctors and dentists
      • Attorneys, Notaries, Conveyancers
    • Product news
    • Cancel Daberistic Services
  • Invest
    • Our fund selection process
    • Retirement annuity
    • Tax-free Investment Plan >
      • Apply for Tax-free Investment Account
    • Unit Trusts
    • Guaranteed Investments >
      • Guaranteed Investments Q&A
    • Preservation funds
    • Offshore
    • Education plan
    • Endowment
    • Participation Bond
    • Deposits
    • Business investment accounts
    • Private investment accounts
    • Exchange Traded Funds
    • Share investing
    • Personalised share portfolio
    • Retirement income
  • Retirement Funds
    • Starting a Fund - What to Consider
    • Retirement Funds - Your Rights
    • What is Regulation 28?
  • Health
    • Our services
    • Discovery Health >
      • How to Select a Discovery Medical Plan
      • 2022 Update
      • 2023 Update
      • Discovery Health Products
      • International Travel Benefit
    • Discovery Vitality >
      • 2022 Update
      • 2023 Update
    • Momentum Health >
      • Momentum Health Products
      • 2022 Update
      • 2023 Update
    • Bonitas >
      • 2022 Update
      • 2023 Update
    • Gap cover >
      • Discovery gap
      • Sirago >
        • 2022 Update
        • 2023 Update
    • FAQ >
      • Discovery COVID Vaccine Process
  • Life
    • Life insurance >
      • Life insurance special offer
    • Accidental cover
    • Income protection
    • Lump sum disability
    • Business Assurance
    • Severe Illness
  • Insure
    • About Short Term
    • Service Charter
    • Business Insurance >
      • Goods in Transit Insurance
      • Professional Insurance
    • Car / House Insurance
    • SASRIA
    • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Financial Coach
    • Blog
    • Personal Financial Planning >
      • Pocket Guide To Money
      • Setting goals
      • Budgeting and cashflow management
      • Consumer Protection Act
    • Retirement planning >
      • Retirement Q&A
    • Risk planning >
      • Retirement funds
    • Tax planning
    • Investment planning >
      • What are unit trusts?
      • Active and passive investing
      • Chasing fund performance may be hazardous to your wealth
      • Understanding risk on and risk off
    • Family trusts
    • Wills and estate planning >
      • Make a will
      • Administering an estate / Duties of an Executor
      • What the executor must do once appointed
    • Business planning
    • Frequently asked questions
  • Accounting & Tax
    • About us >
      • DAA Proatia Manual
    • Accounting
    • Tax >
      • 2022 South Africa Budget and Tax Guide
      • 2020 South Africa Budget and Tax Guide
      • 2019 South Africa Budget and Tax Guide
      • 2017 South Africa Budget and Tax Guide
    • Business Plan
    • Company Registration & Secretarial Services
    • Audit/Review/Compilation report
    • Frequently asked questions >
      • Establishing a Business in South Africa
  • About us
    • Who we are
    • What sets Daberistic apart
    • How we help our clients
    • Our clients
    • Community involvement
    • Company Documents >
      • Privacy Policy
      • Complaints Resolution Policy
      • Conflict Of Interest Policy
      • PAIA Manual
    • Disclosures >
      • POPIA Consent
      • Email Confidentiality Notice And Disclosure
    • Company News >
      • Heritage Day 2015
      • Mandela Day 2016
    • Daberistic Academy >
      • Car insurance rating factors
      • Investment seminars
      • Personal finance seminars
      • Workplace skills >
        • Sales Scripts
        • Client Communication
        • Stress Management
        • Industrial Relations
        • Leadership
        • Employee Benefits
        • Company Values
        • Tax
        • Commercial Insurance
        • Gap cover
        • Excel
        • Retirement -
        • Retirement Annuity &Provident Fund
        • Marketing and Branding
        • Broker Appointment
        • Telephone etiquette
        • Client service etiquette
      • Mini MBA
    • Careers >
      • Positions >
        • Healthcare Consultant/Business Development Manager
      • Questionnaires >
        • Pre-interview Elementary Test
        • Chinese Client Consultant Pre-interview Questionnaire
        • Short-term Insurance Administrator Pre-interview Questionnaire
        • HR and Finance Administrator Pre-interview Questionnaire
    • Contact us >
      • Cancellation
  • 我想要
    • 德博理财专栏
    • 查看旧德博理财专栏
    • 促销活动 >
      • 百万富翁投资计划
      • 半百万富翁投资计划
      • Fedgroup飞达参与分红债券
    • 申请新保险 >
      • 员工团体保险
      • 寿险/意外险报价资料表
      • 国际学生医疗保险2023
      • 商业保险
      • 医疗保险需求评估
      • 医疗保险申请
      • 加入活力健康计划
      • 投资 >
        • 投资方案报价
        • 孩子教育基金. >
          • 非洲排名前100高中
          • 南非高校排行榜
        • 为年老时存钱.
        • 闲钱投资.
        • 月领退休金.
        • 免税投资账户.
        • 投资型保单.
        • 股票.
        • 基金
        • 海外基金
        • 房地产基金.
        • 投资
      • 汽车保险报价
      • 店面投保
    • 现有保单管理 >
      • 保费没扣到
      • 在线税务证明申请表格
      • 人寿险/意外险保单管理
      • 医疗保险客服 >
        • 新生儿加保申请表格
        • 家属退保申请表格
        • 国际旅游医疗福利
        • Discovery医保怀孕生产幼儿福利
        • 下载Discovery医疗保险证明
        • 下载Discovery医保税务证明
        • Sirago附加险索赔提交
      • 投资账户管理
      • 产物保险管理
      • 客服满意度问卷
    • 申请索赔 >
      • 申请车险索赔
    • 住院
    • 常用专科医生名称中英文对照
    • 出车祸处理
    • 设立遗嘱 >
      • 遗嘱的生效和不生效
      • 遗嘱的处分
      • 遺囑執行人被任命後
    • 聘德博为经纪人
    • 非居民在南非开银行账户
    • 投资移民
    • 唐人街商铺联系方式
  • 财富管理
    • 如何选择投资产品
    • 企业投资账户
    • 私人投资账户
    • 孩子教育基金
    • 为年老时存钱 >
      • 退休需要認真金錢
    • 闲钱投资
    • 海外投资 >
      • 如何投资海外资产
      • 南非外汇管制规定
      • Investors Trust外幣投資
    • 免税投资帐户 >
      • 免税投资账户问答集(Q&A)
    • 月领退休金
    • 投资型保单
    • 基金 >
      • 如何挑选基金
    • 稳赢固定利率保单
  • 员工福利
    • 公司团体医疗保险Q&A
    • 员工福利Q&A
    • 公积金Provident Fund说明
    • 中小企业员工福利完整套餐
  • ​人寿保险
    • 为什么要购买人寿保险
    • 人寿保险的妙用
    • 人寿保险常见问题回答
    • 购买人寿保险流程
    • 美元人寿保险
    • 意外险
    • 特殊寿险产品
    • 重大疾病险 >
      • 身体健康检查重要指标
      • 全球癌症病例激增
      • 细数癌症之最
    • Sanlam意外险
    • Old Mutual绿光关怀计划.
  • 医疗保险
    • 南非的医疗保险介紹
    • 医疗保险Q&A 常见问题回答 >
      • Discovery COVID 疫苗注册
      • Discovery 非洲医疗福利
    • 如何选择医疗保险
    • Discovery医疗保险 2022更新摘要 >
      • Discovery医疗保险 2022 - 如何选择医保选项
    • Discovery医疗保险 2023更新摘要 >
      • Discovery医疗保险 2023 - 如何选择医保选项
    • Discovery Vitality活力健康计划 2023 >
      • 激活你的健活奖励
    • Bonitas医疗保险2023介绍
    • Momentum 2023
    • 医疗附加险 >
      • Discovery 附加险
      • Sirago 医疗附加险 2023 >
        • 医疗附加险法规改变
    • 紧急意外险
  • 财产险
    • 雇主责任保险
    • 建筑工程一切险
    • 商业火险
    • 车险
    • 暴动险 Sasria
    • 常见问题
  • 会计师事务所
    • 南非2021财政预算及税法
    • 南非2020财政预算及税法
    • 南非2019财政预算及税法
    • 南非2018财政预算及税法
    • 南非2017财政预算及税法
    • 南非2016财政预算及税法
    • 南非2015财政预算及税法
    • 南非2008财政预算及税法
  • 关于我们
    • 我们如何与众不同
    • 我們如何帮助客户 - 保险篇
    • 我們如何帮助客户 - 投资理财篇
    • 德博理财学院 >
      • 标准销售话术

Starting a Fund - What to Consider

There are a few aspects to consider when starting a retirement fund for your employees:

1. Legal structure

A retirement (pension or provident) fund is a legal entity, separate from the employer and service providers. All contributions and investments are held by the fund in the name of the fund.

A stand-alone fund serves just one employer; an umbrella fund combines many employers under one legal structure.

Umbrella Funds

An umbrella fund is appropriate for all employers who lack size to extract scale benefits from a stand-alone fund.

An umbrella fund reduces the average cost per member and can provide other advantages such as professional governance. Members and employers can benefit from higher returns and lower regulatory risk. The South African retirement industry is heading strongly in the direction of umbrella funds: the number of stand-alone retirement funds in South Africa has almost halved over the past few years.

Stand-alone Funds

A stand-alone retirement fund is appropriate for very large employers that do not need to pool assets to obtain benefits of scale. The key advantage of a stand-alone fund is control over the Board of Trustees and the appointment of service providers.

​A stand-alone fund with less than R200m of assets is unlikely to be cost effective, and an umbrella fund may be more appropriate.

2. Who should be eligible to join?

Membership criteria: Who should be eligible to join?

This is a matter of company policy and must be laid down in the rules of the fund. Some companies exclude contract workers, weekly paid staff or factory workers; others with high staff turnover prescribe waiting periods before new employees can join. The criteria for eligibility must be objectively determinable. Our research indicates companies with high staff turnover should prescribe a waiting period of 3 months, 6 months or even 12 months.

Once a fund is established and the eligibility criteria have been set, all existing employees meeting these criteria are invited to join. Thereafter, all new employees who meet the eligibility criteria must join as one of their terms of employment.

3. Contribution rates (as a % of salary)

​There is no right contribution rate. Daberistic believes an appropriate savings strategy is a 17% contribution rate for a 40 year working life, but you have options in this regard. Some companies provide one contribution rate and insurance benefit package for all employees. Others set up different employee categories and vary the contribution rate and/or insurance benefits by category. You can thus be flexible in designing employees’ benefits package.

Our research shows an employer with generous employee benefits typically has the following contribution rates:

Employer contribution: 7.5%
Plus Cost of risk benefits and administration covered by employer: 3.0%
(Total employer contribution including cost: 10.5%)

Employee contribution: 7.5%
Total to retirement investment account: 15.0%

An employer with average employee benefits typically has the following contribution rates:

Employer contribution: 5.0%
Plus Cost of risk benefits and administration covered by employer: 2.3%
(Total employer contribution including cost: 7.3%)

Employee contribution: 5.0%
Total to retirement investment account: 10.0%

You can raise the contribution rate at the annual salary increase, by diverting a portion of the increase to the retirement fund contribution. Employees may also make additional voluntary contributions to top up their retirement savings.

4. Risk benefits

There is no obligation – or need – to provide insurance cover (such as life cover, disability, dread disease and funeral) with a retirement fund, although these may be facilitated. The prevalent practice is to include a range of risk benefits. The typical set of risk benefits is as follows:

1. Group Life Assurance - life cover offered on a group basis, typically at 4 times annual salary. For example, if an employee's annual salary is R200,000, his Group Life cover will be R800,000.

2. Income Protection Benefit - it pays a monthly income to an employee who is unable to work due to accident or sickness, after a waiting period (generally 3 months). The monthly benefit is payable until the employee recovers and returns to work, or until his retirement age.
​
3. Funeral Benefit - This is a popular benefit with South African employees. It covers the employee, her spouse and children. An amount of up to R20,000 is paid in the event of death of the employee or his family members, to assist with funeral arrangements.

There are essentially two types of risk benefits: approved and unapproved.

An approved risk benefit is a contract between the retirement fund and the insurer; an unapproved benefit is a contract between the employer or the employees as a group and the insurer. There are differences in regulation and tax treatment between these two types of contracts.
​
The trend is to offer unapproved benefits so that in the event of a claim, the payout is tax free.

5. Service providers

The following services are offered to company retirement funds:

  • Advice/consulting
  • Administration
  • Investment management
The employer should conduct a cost-benefit analysis when selecting service providers.

Advice/consulting

This covers initial consultations, benefit quotations, quotation comparisons and analysis, guidance on the key decisions when starting or optimizing your retirement fund. Ongoing consulting services may include legal updates, actuarial reports and investment advice.

Administration

The main functions include contribution collection, forwarding contributions to risk providers and the investment managers, managing member exits and benefit payments and reporting (employer and employee).

Investment management

A fund may have one or more investment managers. The manager should invest the fund assets according to their specific investment mandate (although some funds do not have clearly defined mandates and benchmarks). Investment performance should be measured against an appropriate and specified benchmark (although again, many funds fall well short of this basic requirement).

In South Africa, a good fund manager should achieve an annualised return of 10% (or CPI + 4%) over 5- to 10-year period, after investment management fees. Note investment returns do not come in a straight line, there will be periods of good returns and periods of poor returns.

Service provider charges

Consulting and administration: as % of salary, generally between 0.5% and 1%. Some administrators also charge an administration fee (as a % of assets) for managing the investments.

Investment management: as % of assets, generally between 0.5% and 1.5% pa. May include performance fees.

Investment advisors may charge a fee as a % of assets.

These costs are often not fully disclosed and thus difficult to measure. The average cost of retirement investing is around 3% pa of investment assets.

Other selection criteria

Cost cannot be the only criteria. In selecting your service provider, you should also consider qualitative aspects. These includes the accuracy and consistency of communication (reports and performance feed-back), financial strength (whether backed by a reputable insurer), administrative competence (this may require a due diligence review), the level of transparency (on costs, fees and performance), the ease and functionality of online services, the emphasis on governance, the make-up of the Board of Trustees (ideally professional and independent) and the ethical values espoused by the organisation.

6. Board of trustees and Principal Officer

Every fund must appoint a management board to run the affairs of the fund. This is called the board of trustees. In addition, the fund must appoint a principal officer, to deal with the day-to-day running of the fund.

The objective of the board of trustees is set out in Section 7C of the Pension Funds Act. This section provides that the object of the board shall be to direct, control and oversee the operations of a fund in accordance with the applicable laws and the rules of the Fund. In pursuing its object, the board “shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that the interests of members in terms of the rules of the fund and the provision of this Act are protected at all times.”

Appointees to a board of Trustees thus require legal training. Board members with insufficient training expose the fund to the risk of regulatory non-compliance. This risk can be minimized by appointing dedicated professional trustees, as are typically available in an umbrella fund.

7. Fund rules

Every retirement fund must have a set of fund rules within the form and format prescribed by the Pension Funds Act. The rules are registered with the Financial Services Board and SARS and are binding on the fund as well as the members, the employer, the service providers and officers of the fund.
​
An umbrella fund, which pools the investments of a number of employers, will have a set of general rules. Each participating employer will then draw up a set of special rules, which are then approved and registered.

8. Member investment choice

It is common practice to offer member investment choice, allowing employees to choose from a selection of investment managers and funds. Members unable or unwilling to choose are usually invested in a “default fund”. From past research it appears that around 80% of employees typically end up in the default fund.

The issue of choice is controversial, not only because few employees exercise it, but because few of the remaining employees exercise it appropriately.

If you offer member investment choice with a default fund, you should consider the following factors when deciding on the appropriate asset allocation strategy: What is the average duration members will stay with the fund? When they leave the fund, how likely are they to preserve their retirement savings, or cash it out? Does the investment portfolio offer some kind of guarantee, to cushion members from severe investment market downturns? 

A further problem with choice is that it does not come free – the administration charge is loaded with the cost of providing choice. This cost is charged to all members, whether they exercise it or not. To the extent that the majority of members do not exercise choice, it is an unnecessary and avoidable cost.

9. The preservation fund option

A preservation fund is a retirement fund designed to warehouse the proceeds from previous pension or provident fund. Given that leaving employees have the option to cash in their retirement fund (which would undo much of the benefit), it is worthwhile encouraging parting employees to preserve their savings in a preservation fund.
​
A preservation fund preserves the accumulated savings and the attached tax benefits (tax-fee investment returns and lump sum payments); it also permits one (full or partial) withdrawal before retirement.
  • I would like to
    • Covid-19 toolkit
    • Signup Newsletter
    • Schedule an appointment
    • Go to hospital
    • Deal with an accident
    • Make a Claim
    • Invest >
      • Investment needs analysis
      • Child education fund >
        • Top 100 schools in South Africa
      • For retirement
      • For income in retirement
      • For capital growth
      • For a new car
      • For a new house
      • Offshore funds
    • Apply for insurance >
      • Life Insurance
      • Medical Aid
      • Car and Household Insurance
      • Business Insurance
    • Appoint Daberistic as broker
    • Promotions >
      • 2022 Millionaire Investment Plan
      • 2022 Half-Millionaire Investment Plan
    • Update my policy >
      • Investment >
        • Allan Gray Debit Order
      • Life insurance
      • Arrear Premiums
      • Business insurance
    • Make a Will
    • Set up a business
    • Get an accountant.
    • Get business tax advice
    • Get personal tax advice
    • Preferred Suppliers >
      • Panelbeaters
      • Doctors and dentists
      • Attorneys, Notaries, Conveyancers
    • Product news
    • Cancel Daberistic Services
  • Invest
    • Our fund selection process
    • Retirement annuity
    • Tax-free Investment Plan >
      • Apply for Tax-free Investment Account
    • Unit Trusts
    • Guaranteed Investments >
      • Guaranteed Investments Q&A
    • Preservation funds
    • Offshore
    • Education plan
    • Endowment
    • Participation Bond
    • Deposits
    • Business investment accounts
    • Private investment accounts
    • Exchange Traded Funds
    • Share investing
    • Personalised share portfolio
    • Retirement income
  • Retirement Funds
    • Starting a Fund - What to Consider
    • Retirement Funds - Your Rights
    • What is Regulation 28?
  • Health
    • Our services
    • Discovery Health >
      • How to Select a Discovery Medical Plan
      • 2022 Update
      • 2023 Update
      • Discovery Health Products
      • International Travel Benefit
    • Discovery Vitality >
      • 2022 Update
      • 2023 Update
    • Momentum Health >
      • Momentum Health Products
      • 2022 Update
      • 2023 Update
    • Bonitas >
      • 2022 Update
      • 2023 Update
    • Gap cover >
      • Discovery gap
      • Sirago >
        • 2022 Update
        • 2023 Update
    • FAQ >
      • Discovery COVID Vaccine Process
  • Life
    • Life insurance >
      • Life insurance special offer
    • Accidental cover
    • Income protection
    • Lump sum disability
    • Business Assurance
    • Severe Illness
  • Insure
    • About Short Term
    • Service Charter
    • Business Insurance >
      • Goods in Transit Insurance
      • Professional Insurance
    • Car / House Insurance
    • SASRIA
    • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Financial Coach
    • Blog
    • Personal Financial Planning >
      • Pocket Guide To Money
      • Setting goals
      • Budgeting and cashflow management
      • Consumer Protection Act
    • Retirement planning >
      • Retirement Q&A
    • Risk planning >
      • Retirement funds
    • Tax planning
    • Investment planning >
      • What are unit trusts?
      • Active and passive investing
      • Chasing fund performance may be hazardous to your wealth
      • Understanding risk on and risk off
    • Family trusts
    • Wills and estate planning >
      • Make a will
      • Administering an estate / Duties of an Executor
      • What the executor must do once appointed
    • Business planning
    • Frequently asked questions
  • Accounting & Tax
    • About us >
      • DAA Proatia Manual
    • Accounting
    • Tax >
      • 2022 South Africa Budget and Tax Guide
      • 2020 South Africa Budget and Tax Guide
      • 2019 South Africa Budget and Tax Guide
      • 2017 South Africa Budget and Tax Guide
    • Business Plan
    • Company Registration & Secretarial Services
    • Audit/Review/Compilation report
    • Frequently asked questions >
      • Establishing a Business in South Africa
  • About us
    • Who we are
    • What sets Daberistic apart
    • How we help our clients
    • Our clients
    • Community involvement
    • Company Documents >
      • Privacy Policy
      • Complaints Resolution Policy
      • Conflict Of Interest Policy
      • PAIA Manual
    • Disclosures >
      • POPIA Consent
      • Email Confidentiality Notice And Disclosure
    • Company News >
      • Heritage Day 2015
      • Mandela Day 2016
    • Daberistic Academy >
      • Car insurance rating factors
      • Investment seminars
      • Personal finance seminars
      • Workplace skills >
        • Sales Scripts
        • Client Communication
        • Stress Management
        • Industrial Relations
        • Leadership
        • Employee Benefits
        • Company Values
        • Tax
        • Commercial Insurance
        • Gap cover
        • Excel
        • Retirement -
        • Retirement Annuity &Provident Fund
        • Marketing and Branding
        • Broker Appointment
        • Telephone etiquette
        • Client service etiquette
      • Mini MBA
    • Careers >
      • Positions >
        • Healthcare Consultant/Business Development Manager
      • Questionnaires >
        • Pre-interview Elementary Test
        • Chinese Client Consultant Pre-interview Questionnaire
        • Short-term Insurance Administrator Pre-interview Questionnaire
        • HR and Finance Administrator Pre-interview Questionnaire
    • Contact us >
      • Cancellation
  • 我想要
    • 德博理财专栏
    • 查看旧德博理财专栏
    • 促销活动 >
      • 百万富翁投资计划
      • 半百万富翁投资计划
      • Fedgroup飞达参与分红债券
    • 申请新保险 >
      • 员工团体保险
      • 寿险/意外险报价资料表
      • 国际学生医疗保险2023
      • 商业保险
      • 医疗保险需求评估
      • 医疗保险申请
      • 加入活力健康计划
      • 投资 >
        • 投资方案报价
        • 孩子教育基金. >
          • 非洲排名前100高中
          • 南非高校排行榜
        • 为年老时存钱.
        • 闲钱投资.
        • 月领退休金.
        • 免税投资账户.
        • 投资型保单.
        • 股票.
        • 基金
        • 海外基金
        • 房地产基金.
        • 投资
      • 汽车保险报价
      • 店面投保
    • 现有保单管理 >
      • 保费没扣到
      • 在线税务证明申请表格
      • 人寿险/意外险保单管理
      • 医疗保险客服 >
        • 新生儿加保申请表格
        • 家属退保申请表格
        • 国际旅游医疗福利
        • Discovery医保怀孕生产幼儿福利
        • 下载Discovery医疗保险证明
        • 下载Discovery医保税务证明
        • Sirago附加险索赔提交
      • 投资账户管理
      • 产物保险管理
      • 客服满意度问卷
    • 申请索赔 >
      • 申请车险索赔
    • 住院
    • 常用专科医生名称中英文对照
    • 出车祸处理
    • 设立遗嘱 >
      • 遗嘱的生效和不生效
      • 遗嘱的处分
      • 遺囑執行人被任命後
    • 聘德博为经纪人
    • 非居民在南非开银行账户
    • 投资移民
    • 唐人街商铺联系方式
  • 财富管理
    • 如何选择投资产品
    • 企业投资账户
    • 私人投资账户
    • 孩子教育基金
    • 为年老时存钱 >
      • 退休需要認真金錢
    • 闲钱投资
    • 海外投资 >
      • 如何投资海外资产
      • 南非外汇管制规定
      • Investors Trust外幣投資
    • 免税投资帐户 >
      • 免税投资账户问答集(Q&A)
    • 月领退休金
    • 投资型保单
    • 基金 >
      • 如何挑选基金
    • 稳赢固定利率保单
  • 员工福利
    • 公司团体医疗保险Q&A
    • 员工福利Q&A
    • 公积金Provident Fund说明
    • 中小企业员工福利完整套餐
  • ​人寿保险
    • 为什么要购买人寿保险
    • 人寿保险的妙用
    • 人寿保险常见问题回答
    • 购买人寿保险流程
    • 美元人寿保险
    • 意外险
    • 特殊寿险产品
    • 重大疾病险 >
      • 身体健康检查重要指标
      • 全球癌症病例激增
      • 细数癌症之最
    • Sanlam意外险
    • Old Mutual绿光关怀计划.
  • 医疗保险
    • 南非的医疗保险介紹
    • 医疗保险Q&A 常见问题回答 >
      • Discovery COVID 疫苗注册
      • Discovery 非洲医疗福利
    • 如何选择医疗保险
    • Discovery医疗保险 2022更新摘要 >
      • Discovery医疗保险 2022 - 如何选择医保选项
    • Discovery医疗保险 2023更新摘要 >
      • Discovery医疗保险 2023 - 如何选择医保选项
    • Discovery Vitality活力健康计划 2023 >
      • 激活你的健活奖励
    • Bonitas医疗保险2023介绍
    • Momentum 2023
    • 医疗附加险 >
      • Discovery 附加险
      • Sirago 医疗附加险 2023 >
        • 医疗附加险法规改变
    • 紧急意外险
  • 财产险
    • 雇主责任保险
    • 建筑工程一切险
    • 商业火险
    • 车险
    • 暴动险 Sasria
    • 常见问题
  • 会计师事务所
    • 南非2021财政预算及税法
    • 南非2020财政预算及税法
    • 南非2019财政预算及税法
    • 南非2018财政预算及税法
    • 南非2017财政预算及税法
    • 南非2016财政预算及税法
    • 南非2015财政预算及税法
    • 南非2008财政预算及税法
  • 关于我们
    • 我们如何与众不同
    • 我們如何帮助客户 - 保险篇
    • 我們如何帮助客户 - 投资理财篇
    • 德博理财学院 >
      • 标准销售话术