Financial advice is about more than numbers.
Guidance on the decisions that shape your financial future — retirement, cover, investments and the questions clients ask us most, written by our advisers and by Old Mutual.
GREENLIGHT risk cover is your safety net when life goes the unplanned way. In 2016, we paid over R4 billion in claims to make sure that our customers and their families are financially protected against death, disability and severe illness. With great expertise, backed by 172 years of wisdom, you can be sure that we’ll be there for you when life takes a detour.
Enduring a severe illness can put your health, and life, on hold. And while the fight back to recovery is not easy, it’s also not impossible. At Old Mutual, we promise to look after you, your family and business when you need it most – with a tax-free lump sum payout to help you lessen any financial worries and focus on a better and speedier recovery.
With the reality of divorce, retrenchment and severe illness, relying on ones partner can have disastrous consequences. Women that rely solely on their partner’s plans for retirement could find themselves in trouble, especially if their marital status changes suddenly.
It takes a certain kind of superhuman strength to be a single parent these days – often not knowing whether you’re coming or going and carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders.
It is said that a man’s greatest fear in old age is loneliness, whilst a woman’s is poverty. This fear may not be unfounded if one considers that women do not seem to take their retirement planning as seriously as their male counterparts – in fact, only around 1/3 of retirement annuities are owned by women!
Women in South Africa today are busier than ever before. We run our own businesses, create jobs and have a voice in multi-million rand corporations. At the same time, we are caring for our families, running households and making sure that our children get the best education possible.