Read Fairheads Times Enjoy our year-end issue of Fairheads Times. We hope it makes for interesting reading ahead of the festive season and wish all our stakeholders well over this period. Thank you for your loyalty and continued support.
The Age 18 issue - Can we finally get there? This year-end issue of Fairheads Times comes with gratitude to all our loyal clients and compassion for those who have been hard hit by the pandemic. We sincerely hope that 2022 will be an easier year for all South...
Returning to our roots but with a modern twist Many years ago, as far back as the 1920s in fact, Fairheads Benefit Services operated as a trust company for predominantly wealthy families. Our core business was looking after inter-generational wealth, advising on...
Published in City Press, 13 March 2016. By Maya Fisher-French. Read the article Would you trust your child with a lump sum or below. Minor children are often the main beneficiaries of the death benefits paid out by retirement funds. The challenge is to make sure the...
Aired on Classic FM, 10 March 2016. Giselle Gould, Fairheads' Business Development Director is interviewed by Michael Avery on Classic Business. Classic FM: 102.7FM│DSTV Audio 857│www.classicfm.co.za
September 2015 By Olefile Moea, Executive Director, Fairheads Benefit Services At Fairheads we are concerned that many large retirement funds have not yet appointed a beneficiary fund and choose to retain and administer minors’ benefits in the retirement fund itself....
Published in IRF.INITY, 1 June 2015 By Giselle Gould, Business Development Director, Fairheads Benefit Services In terms of section 37C of the Pension Funds Act, the trustees of retirement funds have four options when deciding how to allocate benefits due to minor...
Retirement fund trustees have a fiduciary duty when paying out death benefits. Even if guardians are financially competent, trustees should ask four key questions before making a decision, says Giselle Gould, Fairheads’ Business Development Director.
Published in FA News. 1 April 2015 By Giselle Gould, Business Development Director, Fairheads Benefit Services The age of responsibility A submission was recently made to the Financial Services Board (FSB) to amend the pension fund legislation so that death benefit...