Secure Your Pension After Covid-19: Strategies to Protect Your Money from the Effects of National Lockdowns and Ratings Downgrades by Bruce Cameron and Wouter Fourie is out in August from Penguin Random House SA.

The people who face the biggest dangers from the Covid-19 pandemic are pensioners.

The virus places their lives at greater risk, and their limited finances are under serious threat. They need to act now to ensure they keep themselves financially afloat.

And the Covid-19 virus is not their only threat. They were already facing the major fallout from state capture under Jacob Zuma’s presidency and the resulting downgrading of South Africa to junk status and the plummeting of the value of the rand.

This book clearly explains the challenges pensioners face today and outlines what they can do to improve their situation.

Written by award-winning author Bruce Cameron and leading financial planner Wouter Fourie, and based on research by the country’s largest pension fund administrator, Alexander Forbes, as well as life companies Just SA and Sanlam, this book is essential for anyone concerned about their financial future.

About the authors

Bruce Cameron is the now semi-retired, multiple-award-winning founding editor of Independent Newspapers’ Saturday supplement Personal Finance and the quarterly Personal Finance magazine. His previous publications include the bestselling Retire Right, Financial Freedom for Women and Getting Started: Money Matters for Under-25s. He is the winner of almost 50 awards for his work on exposing unacceptable practices in the financial services industry, including the Citadel Words on Money journalism award, the Mondi Shanduka Journalist of the Year award, the Sanlam Financial Journalist of the Year award, and the Vodacom Journalist of the Year award.

Wouter Fourie is an advanced postgraduate-qualified financial planner (investments and estate planning) with more than 21 years’ experience in the field of comprehensive financial planning and wealth management. He is also a qualified professional accountant (SA) with postgraduate qualifications in advanced taxation. He won the 2015/16 Financial Planner of the Year Award, which honours South Africa’s most proficient professional financial planner. He is the CEO of Ascor Independent Wealth Managers, which was named Best Advisor Practice for South Africa in 2016. He also serves as a non-executive director of the Financial Planning Institute of South Africa (FPI) and director and chair of the FPI Centre for Professional Development (Pty) Ltd.

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