FAIS Ombud budgets for more levy income despite 0% increase
The Office can no longer look to the FSCA to make up for any shortfalls in income.
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Ombud Council’s 2024/25 budget reflects shift to operational independence
Bridging finance from National Treasury may not be required now that it has certainty of receiving levy and special levy income.
FSCA confirms withdrawal of Salt Asset Management’s licence
The Authority conducted an inspection on the company last year following allegations of its potential involvement in money-laundering activities.
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Sars publishes important guides for taxpayers – including trusts
One of the guides applies to the Income Tax Return for Trusts.
RAF tells medical schemes regulator to butt out of its dispute with Discovery Health
The fund says there is an ‘unholy alliance’ between the Council for Medical Schemes and the administrator to ‘misinform’ medical scheme members.
More asset manager consolidation ‘is inevitable’
Mergers and acquisitions will increase because the country’s low savings rate and stagnant economy cannot support the number of fund managers.
US court orders SA ‘multilevel marketing scam’ to pay R32bn to victims
The order against MTI is in addition to the R65bn in penalties imposed on founder and CEO Johann Steynberg earlier this year.
A summary of Sars’s VAT modernisation discussion document
Sars has published a discussion paper on its intended modernisation of the VAT collection system, which will ultimately make VAT reporting faster and more transparent.
‘The free lunch from guarantees may come at a hefty cost’
Investors should remember that the price of the guarantee is not only in the return they lock in, but also in the future returns they give up by being out of equity markets.
Sanlam research delves into South Africans’ level of financial confidence
Most experience stress when managing their day-to-day personal finances.
Parametric-based business interruption cover proffered for SA’s ‘next pandemic’
Parametric insurance has traditionally focused on safeguarding against extreme weather events. Can it provide a solution for other threats?
Six reasons for making a commitment today to studying with MBSE in 2024
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Tribunal sets aside Capitec’s debarment of a rep who joined a competitor bank
The jurisdictional fact required for the debarment was absent.
A clear case of an ambiguous policy wording?
The policy’s terms and conditions, read together with the schedule, did not make it clear that a tracking device was a requirement for theft/hijacking cover.
Online platform launched to report, identify, and prevent syndicate-driven scams
Fraudsters are making millions out of ancestry and commodity-trading scams, warns the Southern African Fraud Prevention Service.
Momentum Metropolitan buys RMI Investment Managers from OUTsurance
The transaction will give MMH higher indirect shares in several boutique asset managers, including Truffle and Perpetua.
