by O'Hagan Attorneys | Mar 9, 2026 | Retirement Planning
“Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.” (Fred Rogers) Retirement is not what it used to be. More and more people are seeing the end of their “formal” work not as a conclusion, but rather a...
by O'Hagan Attorneys | Mar 9, 2026 | Economy, Financial Planning, Saving & Investing, tax
“The 2026 Budget marks an important turning point for South Africa.” (Dr Duncan Pieterse, Director-General, National Treasury) Some of the best news in Budget 2026 is the real GDP growth of an estimated 1.4% for 2025, rising to 2% in 2028, and a debt ratio that will...
by O'Hagan Attorneys | Mar 9, 2026 | Market Update
“We use the term risk all too casually, and the term uncertainty all too rarely.”( John Bogle) Investors are living through a perma-crisis in which the goalposts have shifted repeatedly, nowhere more so than in US trade policy. Trump’s on-again, off-again tariff...
by O'Hagan Attorneys | Feb 3, 2026 | Retirement Planning, Saving & Investing, tax
“The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. (John Maynard Keynes) 1. Boost your retirement savings Contributing to a Retirement Annuity (RA) before 28 February can reduce your taxable income and grow your long-term...
by O'Hagan Attorneys | Feb 3, 2026 | Retirement Planning
“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is to act with yesterday’s logic.” (Peter Drucker) For a long time, South Africans have been told to use a simple formula to figure out how much money they will need in retirement: multiply their annual expenses by 25. The...
