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The Office of the Pension Funds Adjudicator has issued their latest quarterly report. You can read it here.
The FAIS Ombud has also issued his quarterly newsletter. Read it here.
And the FSCA recently held a webinar providing an overview of supervisory onsite inspections for FSPs. Watch the recording here.
Editor's Thoughts.
Today is World Financial Planning Day and South Africa’s petrol pumps have volunteered to demonstrate why it matters. Look, I love experiencing new things as much as the next person, but I’m quite happy to pass on these never-been-seen-before petrol prices. However you move around your town or city, your household budget faces another squeeze.
For Human Capital teams, trustees/mancos and product designers everywhere, that’s a reminder: financial planning connects benefits, investment decisions and the pressures people face.
Craig Comrie’s (Profmed) medical aid article brings that home. The cheapest contribution isn’t necessarily the best outcome. Benefit limits, co-payments and treatment needs deserve attention alongside the renewal percentage. This is a consistent theme in our podcast series Health Hack SA. Please share this with your colleagues, friends and family to help them make the best decision now during medical aid option time.
And today’s articles from Coronation, Mergence and CFI Financial Group point to the investment context. (Never mind gold, I should’ve invested in Nvidia – or should I have?)
But I want to get to today’s episode of Industry Insights where Lettesha Pillay (NMG Benefits) reinforces the human point: retirement fund members (and your financial planning clients and your employees) aren’t just numbers.
That’s the thread running through the 2026 EBnet Evolutionaries Conference, where 18 leading industry voices share what Benefits Activated means. To quote Ntombizone Feni, CEO of 21st Century from her conference slot on Activating benefits in the new EVP, “What changes in someone’s life because this benefit exists?”
Just sit in that comment for a bit. And think about what changes in someone’s life because of you - your role, your ideas, your advice, your decisions?
See you at Day 1 of the 2026 FPI Conference. Bring me coffee.
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