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How fees affect your preservation fund
Preserving your pension or provident savings in a preservation fund is the smart thing to do. But the fees you pay for that investment can make or break your retirement.
Preservation Funds And The Cost Of Cashing Out Early
Preserving your pension or provident savings in a pension or provident preservation fund isn't just a good idea - the maths says it's the best idea.
Your top 10 retirement savings mistakes (part 2)
Your retirement should be a stress-free as possible. And it can be. Learn what not to do with your retirement investments, and enjoy the golden years you deserve (part 2).
Your top 10 retirement savings mistakes (part 1)
Your retirement should be a stress-free as possible. And it can be. Learn what not to do with your retirement investments, and enjoy the golden years you deserve (part 1).
After retirement
Take the stress out of retirement by getting the asset allocation in your Living Annuity right
Equities, cash, bonds, property... offshore or local? Understanding which assets your living annuity is invested in could mean the difference between a comfortable retirement, and a stressful one.
Playing The Long Game: How Fees Impact Your Living Annuity
When you convert your retirement savings into a living annuity, you don't only want to draw a sustainable income from that investment: you want your money to work for you. Minimising fees is the best way to ensure your investment grows.
The Rule of 4%: Will Your Retirement Savings Last?
Explore the 4% rule for retirement withdrawals and understand how fees impact your retirement income. Learn about sustainable drawdown rates, the effects of inflation, and how to make your retirement savings last longer with 10X's low-fee approach.
Balancing sustainable income and growth potential in your Living Annuity
Investing in a living annuity presents an opportunity for both a sustainable income in retirement and growth of the investment itself. Correct asset allocation, and balancing the fees, inflation, drawdown and return equation is key.
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Evolution of 10X continues with CoreShares purchase
10X Investments has agreed to a 100% cash purchase of CoreShares, creating a full-service indexing investment specialist that will give South Africans access to a wide selection of best-in-class products at the fairest fees possible.
Five red flags that you’re being scammed
Scammers are becoming increasingly sophisticated in the digital age. A favoured trick is to pretend to work for an existing company and use a copy of that company’s logo and other material from their website to lure the unsuspecting, who think they are handing their money over to a well-known, legitimate company.
Why your retirement will survive even if 10X doesn't
Is it safe to entrust my retirement to 10X? That is a legitimate question thanks to the many incidents of poor industry practice, failed investment schemes and embezzlement that have caused great harm to investors in various South African companies over the years.
Catching up with Anton Eser, 10X CIO
We hosted another exciting retirement savings webinar focussing on the measures you can take to live better in retirement. Economic insights were also shared and the spotlight was put on the pressures sustained on global investment returns.