Investments/Retirement saving - Financial advisers, yes or no?

OrbitalDawn

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Just read through their "Retirement Plan" brochure, don't really like it. Too complex. Seems a bit expensive and what about issues like can't pay, do you loose benefits?

As to managing a RA... they only thing you need to manage is how much you put in (and you can probably have that escalate 5% or 10% or whatever per annum automatically but ticking the relevant box on the form, eliminating that issue) and if even you want to stop contributing for some reason (life happens, the Discovery products benefits will probably not happen if you have to stop for a short period).

Also that's why you need to choose a Balanced Fund, the fund will be kept Regulation 28 compliant at all times, no management from your side. If you chose a bunch of asset class funds (like this equity fund, that foreign fund and this property fund) to make up you own compilation, there would be managing involved to rebalance it every now and then for regulation 28 compliance.

Awesome, thanks for the advice. Yeah, thing with Discovery and their integrated products is that you can benefit if you stay within the parameters etc. But it just seems steep, those fees.

I reckon I'll go for the Allan Gray RA. Seems very straight forward and their performance has been solid.
 

HavocXphere

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OK - phoned the Sygnia okes:

50k - Once off lumpsum

10k - extra EFT

1k - minimum debit order

Meaning you can set up a 1k debit order without the 50k, but you can't top it up with another 3 via EFT...has to be 10 minimum.
 

OrbitalDawn

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OK - phoned the Sygnia okes:

50k - Once off lumpsum

10k - extra EFT

1k - minimum debit order

Meaning you can set up a 1k debit order without the 50k, but you can't top it up with another 3 via EFT...has to be 10 minimum.

Can you start off with like 20k lump sum and then add a debit order onto that?
 

DJ...

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I'm starting to get the impression that marco is back...:erm:
 

supersunbird

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OK - phoned the Sygnia okes:

50k - Once off lumpsum

10k - extra EFT

1k - minimum debit order

Meaning you can set up a 1k debit order without the 50k, but you can't top it up with another 3 via EFT...has to be 10 minimum.

Thanks for phoning :)
 
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