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In the wake of questions surrounding bulking and the requirement for protection of pension fund investments, Tilman Friedrich, MD of Retirement Fund Solutions issued a series of articles in the Namibia Economist, highlighting the issues around mismanagement of pension funds and practical methods for protecting pension fund investments. Find out more, here. Article 1 / Article 2 / Article 3 / Article 4

The official RFS position statement that can be found, here>>

 
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Find out more about planning for your personal retirement in a series of articles written by Retirement Fund Solutions MD, Tilman Friedrich.

Sind Sie Fit Für Die Rente?
Eine umfassende Beleuchtung Ihrer Möglichkeiten wenn Sie in den Ruhestand treten möchten.
Hier klicken >>

 

Index

Benchtest fund performance reviews

Funds offered by Benchmark
Namibian banks

Professional bodies
Namibian online media
General information
Press releases
Newsletters
General circulars

New publications & updates

Benchtest Monthly (August 2008)

Benchtest Monthly (July 2008)

Benchtest Financial Highlights 2007
Highlights from the Auditors' report 2007 (PDF)

RFS Overview of Statutory Environment (Power Point) - updated for September 2007

Analysis & press releases

Corporate Profile
Profile of Retirement Fund
Solutions (Pty) Ltd

Market structure, shareholding structure, corporate philosophy & staff. (Power Point)

Financial Services Amendment Bill
Read the text of the Financial Services Amendment Bill, here>> And read Tilman Friedrich's commentary of the Financial Services Amendment Bill, here>>

Fund Perfomance

Benchtest Monthly (June 2008)

Benchtest Monthly (May 2008)

Benchtest Monthly (April 2008)

Benchtest Monthly (March 2008)

Benchtest Monthly (February 2008)

Benchtest Manager Review
(Fourth Quarter 2007)

Benchtest Monthly (January 2008)

Benchtest Monthly (December 2007)

Benchtest Monthly (November 2007)

Benchtest Monthly (October 2007)

Benchtest Manager Review
(Third Quarter 2007)

Benchtest Monthly (September 2007)

RFS has a policy of obtaining independent, outside insight into its dealings.

Independent actuarial report on the Benchmark Retirement Fund to 31 December 2006, here >>

Guidelines for retirement

Pensioner Rules Summary
– The Benchmark Retirement Fund –
An overview for pensioners
MS Word document: Click here >>

Deferred Pensioner Rules Summary
- The Benchmark Retirement Fund –
An overview for members who wish to preserve their pension capital post retirement or on resignation
MS Word document: Click here >>

Considerations for investment of capital
MS Word document: Click here >>

Sind Sie Fit Für Die Rente?
Eine umfassende Beleuchtung Ihrer Möglichkeiten wenn Sie in den Ruhestand treten möchten.
Hier klicken >>

Useful links

Funds

Find the funds offered by Benchmark, here>>

Economy, research & government

Institute for Public Policy Research
Regular research publications on various issues affecting public and economic policy

National Planning Commission
Official planning organization for the Government of the Republic of Namibia

NEPRU
Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit

The Namibian Government

Namibian Banks

Bank Windhoek

First National Bank

Nedbank

Standard Bank

Stanlib

Professional bodies

NIBA
The Namibian Insurance Brokers Association is the controlling body for short term insurance brokers.

Online Newspapers

The Namibian Economist
Weekly, specialising in economic & business news

The Namibian
Daily English language newspaper

Allgemeine Zeitung
Daily German language newspaper

Die Republikein
Daily Afrikaans language newspaper

 

 

 
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