Published in Personal Finance, 11 June 2016. By David Hurford, Director, Marketing & Consulting, Fairheads Benefit Services Read it here or as reproduced below. Beneficiary fund can secure your kid's future The government introduced beneficiary funds in 2009 to...
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Why Not Reform For Kids Too?
Published on EBnet, February 2016 By Olefile Moea, Director, Fairheads Benefit Services In line with industry trend and also #FeesMustFall At a time when retirement reform is moving in the direction of annuitisation for adult retirement fund members, we find it...
Retirement Funds Not Geared To Administering Children’s Benefits
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....
Retirement Funds Not Geared To Administering Children’s Benefits
Many large retirement funds have not yet appointed a beneficiary fund and choose to retain and administer minors’ benefits in the retirement fund itself. Giselle Gould, Fairheads’ Business Development Director explains why retirement funds...
Age 18 – Is It Appropriate?
June 2015 By Olefile Moea, Consultant Following years of verbal engagement, a formal written submission was recently made to the Financial Services Board to amend pension fund legislation such that death benefit lump sums administered by beneficiary funds, umbrella...
Time To Reconsider Lump Sum Payments For Minor Children
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...
Gold Standard Certificate for Excellence in Communication, IRFA Conference 2014
19 August 2014 Fairheads Benefit Services is pleased to announce that it was acknowledged for a unique grassroots communication project by winning a gold Industry Best Practice Award* at the Institute of Retirement Funds Africa conference in Durban, on 19 August. The...
Fairheads Wins Industry Award For The Third Year Running
12 June 2012 Fairheads Benefit Services was named Trust and Beneficiary Administrator of the Year at the Imbasa Yegolide Awards held in Gauteng on 11 June 2012 and hosted by the Principal Officers’ Association and Global Pensions. This is the third year running that...





