Saving for retirement is is about designing the life you're going to live in the future, today. Discover why it's important to start saving early.

SMEs are engines of innovation, job creation & economic growth, yet they have challenges accessing funding. Join Audery Masango & Nobesuthu Ndlovu, Director of SME at Old Mutual address the challenges SMEs face with access to funding and more. 

A number of unexpected factors are shaping group risk insurance in our post-pandemic world – heightened awareness of what they’re getting amongst employees, flexible benefits structures and an entirely new definition of what it means to be ‘at work.’

Join Big Business Insights podcast host Blessing Utete and Old Mutual’s Group Assurance Business Executive, Mariaan de Jongh, as they discuss these trends, how they are changing group benefits products and choices, and importantly, how it could influence your company’s employee value proposition in the future. 

 You’ll gather insights on:

• Trends in group risk benefits and what’s driving them
• Death and disability benefits in a post-Covid South Africa
• The rise of flexible structures and how employees are exercising more choice
• What employers should consider before allowing flexibility
• The value of funeral benefits many employees seem to miss, and why.

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Many South African employees, across industries and income bands, are struggling financially. But just how much, and from an employer’s perspective, how much does it affect their work?

In this episode of Big Business Insights, host Blessing Utete is joined by Dr. Frank Magwegwe to discuss the important subject of employee financial wellness. Dr Magwegwe, popularly knowns as Dr Mags, is a personal finance and employee financial wellness expert, a financial planning researcher, life planner, educator, and an academic, and passionate about this South African dilemma.  

Join Dr. Mags and Blessing as they discuss:

• The state of the SA workforce’s finances
• How HR managers and business leaders can spot the signs of financial distress
• What you as a decision-maker can do to help your employees learn the right financial behaviours to become financially healthy. 

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The four-day workweek has been a topic of discussion across the globe since the Covid-19 pandemic changed the way many businesses approached their way of working. This year, a number of companies in South Africa adopted the shorter week as a pilot project and reward-management experts at Remchannel did a countrywide survey among corporate employers to get insights into their thinking around a 32-hour workweek.

Listen to this Big Business Insights podcast hosted by Blessing Utete, host and Managing Executive at Old Mutual Corporate Consultants in conversation with Remchannel’s Managing Director Designate, Lindiwe Sebesho, as they discuss what the survey reveals and whether the four-day workweek is gaining traction, plus how decision-makers should view it within their overall EVP. 

Topics covered include: 

• What the four-day workweek is and how it’s playing out in business
• Interesting findings that have come out of Remchannel’s survey 
• What SA corporates think about the idea
• Why the four-day workweek is actually part of a bigger employee conversation
• How businesses and decision-makers can gauge if it’s the right choice for their business, and what to do if it isn’t.

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The proposed Two-Pot Retirement System could be implemented as soon as March 2024. Yet a lot of questions remain about how exactly the new system will work, how to prepare for it, and what it will mean for funds and their members.

In this episode of our Big Business Insights podcast series, host and Managing Executive at Old Mutual Corporate Consultants Blessing Utete asks our Retirement Reform Executive Michelle Acton – who’s been closely involved with Treasury in the consultation process around the new system – all the important questions you need to know:

• What’s changing, what isn’t and what’s still unclear?
• How will it change the retirement and employee benefits landscape? 
• What do employers and brokers need to explain to their employees or clients?
• How exactly will the Savings Pot work?
• And more.

Listen as Blessing and Michelle unpack the who, what, when and how of, arguably, the most impactful change to the South African retirement industry in recent history.

Big Business Insights
Everyone at the helm of a business, whether a large corporate or a small or medium-sized enterprise, wants to take the right decisions for their businesses to grow and their people to thrive. Join Old Mutual Corporate’s Malusi Ndlovu as he talks to different experts to answer some of the questions you may have and help you to take informed decisions.

S1 EP5: What to consider when moving staff from one group pension fund to another

When an employer decides to move their entire workforce to another group retirement fund, HR and fund trustees have to consider all the stakeholders. Leanne van Wyk, an expert on pension-fund regulations and Director of ICTS Legal Services, explains what the law says, which steps to follow and what rights employees – the fund members – have.

Big Business Insights
Everyone at the helm of a business, whether a large corporate or a small or medium-sized enterprise, wants to take the right decisions for their businesses to grow and their people to thrive. Join Old Mutual Corporate’s Malusi Ndlovu as he talks to different experts to answer some of the questions you may have and help you to take informed decisions.

S1 EP4: The Great Resignation’s impact on South African employers and HR managers
The Great Resignation has been worrying HR professionals since the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. Employers in South Africa have also seen some of their best workers and even senior managers leave in pursuit of greater fulfilment and work-life balance. Dr Roze Phillips, a foremost workplace expert, leadership coach and futurist, talks to us about what employers can expect in the next few years.

Big Business Insights
Everyone at the helm of a business, whether a large corporate or a small or medium-sized enterprise, wants to take the right decisions for their businesses to grow and their people to thrive. Join Old Mutual Corporate’s Malusi Ndlovu as he talks to different experts to answer some of the questions you may have and help you to take informed decisions.

S1 EP3:  The key to managing risks to your retirement savings
Retirement funds use risk-sharing to spread out risk to ensure members of outcomes that are as consistent as possible. It is a particular feature of smoothed bonus funds that are designed to protect members and their pensions against market slumps. Fred van der Vyver, Old Mutual’s Head: Group Retirement and Guaranteed Solutions, explains how this works.

Big Business Insights
Everyone at the helm of a business, whether a large corporate or a small or medium-sized enterprise, wants to take the right decisions for their businesses to grow and their people to thrive. Join Old Mutual Corporate’s Malusi Ndlovu as he talks to different experts to answer some of the questions you may have and help you to take informed decisions.

S1 EP2: How HR managers can best manage a staff retirement fund
Why should employers and HR directors become more involved in their group retirement fund and what it offers? Fred van der Vyver, Old Mutual’s Head: Group Retirement and Guaranteed Solutions,says it’s one thing making sure that your employees get a salary each month and can pay their bills, but it’s another to have a benefit package that will take care of their financial needs in retirement too.  For more information, visit oldmutual.co.za/corporate