Housing needs for your retirement
When buying into a retirement housing scheme, it's important to scrutinise the form of ownership because your legal rights and obligations vary greatly with the different types of schemes. Retirement [...]
Do you look forward to retirement?
Retirement can be a massive step in life that can affect your emotions, finances and even your marriage, but you may be surprised to learn how many people apparently approach [...]
Prevent loneliness after retirement
Any person can feel lonely at times in his or her life. However, it is often those who are retired, who feel lonely more often. Even if you are not [...]
When is it too late to start planning for retirement?
If you're one of millions of South Africans who are on the other side of 40 and don't yet have a substantial nest egg, it's not too late. However, determination [...]
What’s in your retirement future?
Analysts spend a lot of time on analysing graphs and trying to predict the future. But, as many analysts know, past investment performance is not necessarily a guide to future [...]
Start saving now for retirement
It takes many years and a lot of discipline to ensure financial independence when you retire. Each year you wait can be costly, as your savings need time to grow. [...]
Retirement planning: time to think outside the box
Retirement planning: time to think outside the box Thousands of "baby boomers" (people born after the Second World War) are heading for retirement, mostly unprepared and with [...]
How long will your money last during retirement?
The first thing on the road to retirement security is to figure out how much you can spend from your nest egg every year without eventually going broke. If you [...]
Healthy ageing quiz
Is your current lifestyle helping you age well? If you are over 50, this quiz is for you. We're all getting older, whether we want to admit it or not! [...]
Secrets to a longer life
Until researchers figure out how to coax our cells into reversing their steady march toward the end of life, here's a glimpse of what they know now. Many studies have [...]
Show you care: practical ways to help the elderly
The contribution older people make to society is invaluable and grossly under-appreciated and reported. Fortunately some individuals, governments and other organisations have woken up to this fact and are trying [...]
Get ready for retirement
Here's how to become a flexible retiree so you can roll with the unanticipated punches and have a retirement plan for unexpected expenses. Once retired, these tips will help you [...]