Financial Planning

July 25, 2025

Young professionals favor investments over long-term insurance

Despite their strong savings habits, young South Africans are overlooking life cover. Liberty, part of Standard Bank Group, highlights why under-35s should balance investment with protection, and how affordable insurance now can secure long-term financial resilience.

July 23, 2025

What life insurance gets wrong about education cover

July 18, 2025

How South Africa can achieve a savvier savings and investment culture

July 18, 2025

Strengthening South Africa’s sustainable finance framework

July 15, 2025

Reforms are due in South Africa’s Higher Education system

September 27, 2022

Jocelyn Manda shares some thoughts on Wills Week and opportunities for IFA’s

Jocelyn Manda, Fiduciary Specialist at PPS shares some thoughts on Wills Week and opportunities for IFA's from that....

September 27, 2022

MTBPS: Little reason for optimism

The reality is that while this budget hit some of the right notes, it did little to instil confidence that the countr...

September 27, 2022

Familiar promises and a disappointing lack of specifics in #MTBPS2020

It’s concerning that government will be looking to increase tax revenues by R5 billion in the next financial year wit...

September 27, 2022

Mboweni’s budget update builds castles in the sky

The promises & projections laid out in the MTBPS seem extremely precarious given government’s consistent failure to a...

September 27, 2022

MTBPS underscores the need for urgent pro-growth policies

STANLIB’s Chief Economist, Kevin Lings and the economics team share their views on whether government is on track to ...

September 27, 2022

Hard choices and reform implementation key to achieving five-year stabilisation plan

Fiscal consolidation and debt stabilisation in the next five years rely on significant expenditure cuts and the earne...