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What should she be looking out for?
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So, if your parent is retiring, an aunt, an uncle, someone in the community is retiring, this video is for them so that you give them the information and that they make the most efficient decision that will give them a good outcome for their retirement because it's a big, big, big decision when you are going into retir...
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So, this information is for them and also for you, even if you are young, like myself, like most people who watch this channel, but to kind of start thinking around retirement and the implications even later on in life.
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All right. So, the legal retirement age in South Africa is 55, okay, from 55, but obviously, it depends on the fund rules.
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So, perhaps you are part of a pension fund or provident fund who has a retirement age of 65, but legally can retire from the age of 55 in South Africa.
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All right. So, let's say you are or your parent is close to retirement, they're retiring in the next couple of months.
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What should they be thinking about?
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So, I'm going to talk about the technical stuff, but also how they should be thinking around retirement and the expenses once they don't earn an active income anymore.
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Okay, so there are two options that a retiree has at retirement.
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Okay, so remember you've built up your pension, your provident fund, you've accumulated this funds for over a couple of years, decades, even actually, hopefully a couple of decades.
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And now you have this capital, you have this amount of money sitting in your pension or provident fund.
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And if you had resigned before from a company and you preserved your funds, so that money perhaps could be sitting in your pension preservation or provident preservation fund.
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But also, again, that money could be sitting in a retirement annuity.
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So let's say you did work for a company and you had a pension provident fund, but then you supplemented that income through a retirement annuity, or you worked for yourself and you didn't have an employee-employee relationship.
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So, meaning that you would have had a retirement annuity to save up for your retirement.
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So, those are some of the vehicles that you would use to save up for retirement.
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So, now you find yourself, let's say, at the age of 60, and you say, you know what, I'm actually tired.
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I want to go and sit at home, look at my grandkids, or travel, or whatever it is that you choose to do.
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What options are available to you, or your parent, or your uncle, or your aunt?
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So, at that age, and like I said, we're going to use 60 as an example. It can be 65, it can be any age, really.
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You have built up this kitty for yourself. So, let us call it 2 million.
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Hopefully, it's more because, truly speaking, with the cost of living, it's not a lot of money.
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A million rent is not a lot of money. 2 million rand is not a lot of money.
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Is but when you subjectively look at it, because remember, and I think there's something also I want to get across: that when we think about retirement, we think about it as this age that, oh my gosh, I'll have 2 million and I'll be sorted.
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But remember, when you retire, for example, with our example here at the age of 60, people are living longer, right?
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Because of medical advances, because of eating well, taking care of yourself, that sort of thing, people are actually living longer.
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So let's make an assumption that you will die at the age of 90.
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So you retire at the age of 60. You die at the age of 90.
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Between there, between 60 and 90, that's a whole 30 years. That is a long, long time. That is a long time.
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And I think if you think about it, if you are in your 20s and you turn 30, it's a big milestone, meaning that you have been alive for 30 years.
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So imagine not earning an active income for 30 years.
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So if you are young right now and you're watching this, think about it that way: that you know what?
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I'm going to need to fund the next 30 years of my life after retirement.
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Yes, the definition of retirement actually should change and is changing.
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That people don't just go stay at home and do absolutely nothing with their lives.
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People, some people still work, consult, and whatever it is.
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But those are some of the things that we should start thinking about.
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That if you are close to retirement, if it's your parent, they should start thinking, what do I want for myself in this new season, you know, in this last phase of my life? You can call it that.
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I know it sounds a little bit morbid, but I think that's why maybe most of the time people don't want to think about retirement because it's like you're edging closer to death.
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But you still have so much life, and you should consider what is it that I'm going to do in this period?
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And that's the conversation you should actually be having with your parents: that, okay, outside of saying,
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yes, you're not going to work actively anymore, you still have skills, you have experience, you have the expertise, you have the number of years that you've worked in whatever industry.
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How do you package that so that you can do consulting?
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Or if you want to travel, how do you make sure that you are able to fund that?
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All right. So you have this amount of money. Let's call it 2 million rand.
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And you are at the age of 60, and that's your retirement.
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And now you are sitting in front of a financial planner, financial advisor, or somebody coming to your company.
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And I want to encourage you: if your parents are close to retirement, don't wait until it's a couple of months before retirement.
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You should start having this conversation at least five years before.
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You should be sitting down with a professional five years before retirement, maybe even more, and reviewing where you are every single year and to come up with a plan to say, This is where we are, this is what you want to achieve.
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And looking at what it is that you have, this is how you're going to achieve that.
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And also take into consideration at retirement, there's medical bills.
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The medical aid inflation, guys, is terrible. It is terrible. It's not normal inflation.
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It goes up by way more than inflation, which right now in April 2025 is sitting at around 3.5%.
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But when you look at how much medical aids go up every single year, it's like 8%.
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So you have to take that into consideration. You have to take living costs into consideration.
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You have to take into consideration, you know, does your parent, and I know with most black people, they want to renovate their houses.
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I would travel, but we are a different generation, and you have to allow them to do those things that they want.
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You know, I think when I was a younger financial planner and starting out in the industry before I started doing financial education, I used to just be like, No, I don't understand why people just don't, you know, travel.
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It's a different generation, and it's okay. Those were their desires.
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We have different desires, and we have to acknowledge those and make sure that whoever is sitting with them acknowledges who your parents are and actually draw up a plan that will suit their needs and their desires because they have their desires.
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Yes, with us, it could meet it. We look at it from a numbers point, we look at it from our own perspective.
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Oh no, you should be traveling. They don't want that.
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They want when someone comes to their house, they see that they've bought a new kiss, that they've bought a new room divider.
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If that's what they want, that financial planner should speak to them with integrity, with warmness, with, I see you, and I know you've told me your goals, and we're going to try to meet them, not their own point of view.
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Okay, like I was when I was younger. I'm glad I'm growing up.
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Anyway, so these are the two options that your parents have at retirement from that amount of money.
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They have two options: one, it's either to buy a life annuity or a living annuity.
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Okay, so when you have a pension fund, when you have a provident fund, legally, and there are many other rules that I'm not going to get into because provident funds used to be treated differently from pension funds.
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With a provident fund, before I can't remember the date now, before that, you could take your provident fund in cash, but you would pay tax on that.
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Okay, you would pay, obviously, the one-third would be tax-free.
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They could still take the two-thirds, but it would be taxed. What happened after?
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Oh my gosh, I'm forgetting the date altogether, but I'll write it in the description. I promise.
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They said, no, profit funds are going to operate the same way as pension funds, meaning that with the pension fund, legally, you are allowed to take one-third in cash.
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That's if you haven't withdrawn from pension and provident funds before, but you are allowed one-third in cash up to $550,000 completely tax-free.
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Then, the two-thirds you have to buy an annuity. What is an annuity?
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It is income that you will be getting from that product that you bought.
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Why did they do this? Not because, oh my gosh, they want to take our money.
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No, it was because people would go and blow it.
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And a lot of the times, people are not used to huge land sums coming into their accounts.
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So they would run out of money. Then the government has to step in and give them some sort of an income.
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So it was reducing that, making sure that we reduce our how much we depend on the state. Okay, so that's how it works.
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So the two options that are available for your parents, for your uncles, aunts, people in your community is that you get what we call a life annuity or a living annuity.
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This is the money that you're going to put.
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So the one-third you would have taken in cash and it will come into your bank account.
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The two-thirds you have to buy an income and annuity. So this annuity is split.
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You can either get a life annuity or a living annuity.
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So what is a life annuity? A life annuity is an insurance product that you buy.
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Okay. So you are at the age of 60. You say, you know what? I want guaranteed income.
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I don't want to run out of money and struggle.
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So a life annuity is a product that an insurance company, so think insurance, think about any company that ends with life, Liberty Life, Sundam Life, Old Mutual Life, anything that ends with life, basically.
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They have that type of product, a life annuity, where they guarantee that you will get an income until you die.
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All right. And you sign up for that and you say, this is the income that you will get.
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And for me, I think it is one of the best ways to guarantee that you don't run out of money and that you have money for your essentials.
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For me, I would use a life annuity to make sure that the basic stuff is taken care of.
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Okay. But there are advantages and disadvantages to everything.
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Right. So with a life annuity, the advantage is that it's guaranteed. You will receive that income for life.
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If you have a partner or a spouse, you can always say, if I pass away, my spouse will continue to get that income.
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Okay. Sometimes, most of the time, it's not inflation-linked.
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So you can find yourself in a position like 20 years later that your needs are not completely being met.
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