Category: Investment insights

Default portfolios are a cornerstone of retirement fund design in South Africa. For most members, the default option is applied automatically, and few actively consider...

Retirement planning in South Africa is not easy. Rising inflation, stagnating salaries and soaring medical aid costs make financial freedom seem out of reach to...

For many South Africans, choosing what to do with their money has always felt binary: keep it safe in a bank account earning minimal interest,...

Imagine working for four decades only to discover that your retirement income barely covers the cost of your groceries. This is not a distant fear...

Young South Africans are rewriting the investment playbook, and traditional fund managers are taking notice. Here’s how the cryptocurrency conversation has evolved from speculation to...

About Magda Wierzycka Magda Wierzycka built Sygnia from nothing into a R350+ billion asset management empire. Her journey from communist Poland to one of Africa's...

Inflation. Market swings. Global tension. It’s a tough crowd out there for investors. When headlines are loud and your portfolio feels the pressure, the instinct...

Sygnia launches new fund range to ease investor anxiety amid market turbulence. Feeling stressed by market conditions? Sygnia has launched a new retirement savings fund...

Clients often expect portfolios to respond materially to current geopolitical uncertainty, assuming that managers will make decisive or aggressive positioning changes in response to global...

The retirement industry has had a busy first few months of 2026. Several significant changes landed almost simultaneously that, viewed as one, could be overwhelming...