Programmes

Our Programmes

All our programmes are custom designed for each client

#Early Start - Learnerships and Interns

  • Managing expectations/ social pressures
    • How to manage black tax
    • Avoiding keeping up with the Khumalos syndrome
  • How my personality affects how I handle finances
    • What’s your money personality
    • Are you able to say no and draw the line?
  • Budgeting techniques
    • Assessing savings (emergency funds, education funds, extended family dynamics)
    • Starting with the end in mind
  • SMART saving techniques
    • Apps available that make it easier
    • Short term goals vs. Medium term vs. Long term goals

#On-Boarding - New Employees

  • Understanding my salary and benefits structure
    • How does my provident fund work
    • How to use your employee benefits in estate planning
  • Stakeholder management
    • How to manage black tax
    • Determine your money personality
  • How to eliminate duplication of risk benefits
    • Understanding your group life
    • What will your dependents get when you pass away
  • Life-staging
    • Drafting a life stage plan, what needs to be in place at different stages of our lives
    • How do choose the correct asset class/ investment using your age
  • Debt management
    • Understanding how interest rates are determined
    • Debt consolidation vs. debt counselling
  • Saving and Investing
    • Products that are available and how they work
    • How to identify investment schemes

#Reconcile - General Employees

  • Assess & Requote:
    • Time to review all risk policies (car, house, etc.) shopping around for quotes can save you money
    • Time to review all life policies, are all your financial dependents appropriately covered?
  • Debt Management:
    • What’s the interest rate on your debt?
    • Can you negotiate the interest rate on your house or car?
  • Knowing my credit status
    • How your credit score affects how much interest is charged when buying a house or car
    • How long it takes for your credit rating to improve
  • Estate planning
    • Section 37C
    • How will your Provident Fund money be distributed
    • Are the children outside marriage entitled to a share?
    • How your marriage regime will affect your Estate distribution
  • Saving and Investing
    • What is the difference between saving and investing
    • What’s the role of each
  • Use of financial products
    • How to use my employee benefits to augment my life cover needs
    • Which product to use for each of your dependants

#Pre-Retirement

  • Check retirement funds
    • What you will need in retirement vs. what you actually have
    • Can you increase your provident fund contribution
  • Plan to eliminate debt
    • With reduced income in retirement, you cannot afford to have debt
    • What other costs you need to buy and pay-up before retirement
  • Estate Planning
    • Limitations of a Will
    • Will your Estate have enough liquidity
  • What to do in retirement
    • What plans are in place for frail care
    • How will you pay for medical expenses
  • Financial products needed in retirement
    • Life annuity vs. Living annuity
    • Tax implications at retirement

#GEPF Employees

  • Difference between
    • Public sector funds, Pension Funds, Provident funds & Pension funds
  • Current employee benefits
    • Understand what is in place & augment where necessary
  • Tax implications
    • At resignation, at Retirement, at Preservation, at Divorce & at Death
      (General/Ret)
  • Managing debt
    • Borrowing against your retirement fund
    • How interest rates work
    • Credit profiling
    • Ways to reduce debt
  • Role of different financial products
    • Life cover vs. Funeral
    • Saving vs. Investing

 

Workshops

  • Face to face or online
  • The length of the session will be as per client’s requirements
  • Will be facilitated to groups, with the maximum number per session being 15

WELLNESS DAYS

  • Can be held as a standalone or alongside other wellness day initiatives
  • We will print Credit reports for participants along with other financial awareness tools
  • These will be onsite

PUBLICATIONS

  • Dependent on the client these will either be electronic or hard copies

ONE ON ONES

  • This will be a closed session with the individual
  • Each session will be for 1 hour