Retirement and Investment Online Workshop

Hugo van Veen
Crypto

• Why would an investment manager want to include Crypto in an Portfolio
• Crypto potential from here
• Risks of crypto market
• Best ways to Invest in Crypto
• Asset Allocation

 

Martiens Barnard
Secure in risk: Diversification with a life annuity, a new asset class to enhance retirement income

To date, retirees had the primary options of investing in a living annuity or purchasing a life annuity, of which the living annuity has been the more popular option, especially for larger investment amounts. Yet, choosing a living annuity left retirees with significant market and longevity risk. This view of providing for retirement income is fragmented and does not consider the efficiencies that can be created when using a life annuity as an asset class within a living annuity. The presentation shows that the required income from a living annuity to maintain a reasonable standard of living can be extended by as much as a decade and even longer. This is done when harnessing risk in an efficient manner by hedging the primary retirement income risks. This is achieved by adding a life annuity as an asset class in a diversified portfolio.

 

Paul Nixon, CFP®
Friends: The One About Psychology and AI

Undoubtedly a key success factor of the sitcom that ran for a decade and 236 episodes was the strong personalities of each character. Using the ‘Big 5’ in trait psychology we easily come up with very different profiles and behaviours for each character. Rachel was the highly spontaneous and social one (highly extraverted). When she flew to London to tell Ross she loved him when he was marrying Emily though, she wasn’t thinking about the consequences of her actions (low conscientiousness). This is the same trait that helped kids leave the marshmallow on the table and get a second one, and also the same trait that makes some of us much better at saving than others. Join us for this webinar where you learn about the personalities and likely money behaviours of your favourite character and by extension yourself. Yes, your favourite ‘friend’ reveals a lot about you too. We’ll also chat about how Friends was used in the famous EmotionX challenge to train an AI to sniff out human emotion.

 

Geraldine Fowler and Nancy Andrews (IRFA)
Two-pot from an administration, planning and trustees perspective

IRFA will provide an overview of the two-pot system followed by some thoughts on the type of activities each of the following participants in the retirement sector would need to consider for the implementation of the two-pot system:

• • Retirement Fund Administrators
  • Advisors, both group (EB) and individual advisors
  • Trustees of retirement funds

 

Andrea Bezuidenhout
Two pot system – unpacking opaque and discretionary elements

Andrea will talk about the Discretionary and opaque aspects of the 2 pots legislation – including some of the “nitty gritties” not clearly spelled out in the legislation, such as:

• • Where does trustee discretion lay (for example extent of seed capital allowed in fund rules, investment strategy)
  • Where member discretion lay (for example provident fund members over 58 who can opt out, transfer of benefits on exit, transfer of savings pot to retirement pot on retirement)
  • How would public sector (paragraph a) funds be impacted
  • Impact of two pot system on DB underpins and dependants pension benefits on death of a member
  • Impact of two pots on 2 DB benefits

Tiaan Herselman, CFP®
Investments, taxation and income longevity: The devil is in the detail.

Clients tend to focus a lot of their attention on factors such as performance, market movements, etc. when evaluating their investments. None of these external factors are within their control. When considering income longevity and retirement planning, clients have different investment vehicles available to them to save into. These range from retirement funds (retirement annuities, pension funds, provident funds, etc.) to liquid investments (unit trusts, endowments, tax free investments, etc.). The selection of the most appropriate investment vehicle for each client is within our control and can add significant value over the long-term. In this session we will consider which investments are most appropriate for which clients based on their different incomes and tax rates. This session is meant to inspire debate, possibly challenge existing thinking and open up discussions for more thought leadership on this topic.