Pensions crisis looming for South Africans

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SOUTH AFRICA - Unless financial markets recover smartly over the next two to three years, South Africans face a pensions crisis.

Independent consulting firm Riscura calculates that pensioners retiring in March 2003 – assuming they were switched from defined benefit to defined contribution funds in the 1990s - should receive ...

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