{"id":760164,"date":"2026-06-25T12:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/760164\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T12:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:22:10","slug":"survey-shows-that-south-africans-planning-retirement-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/760164\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey shows that South Africans planning retirement too late"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG &#8211; The latest Sanlam Benchmark Survey shows that South Africans are planning their retirement too late.<\/p>\n<p>While many believe they should start planning for retirement in their mid-thirties, most only begin engaging with their retirement fund about 3 years before they stop working.<\/p>\n<p>The survey also found that only 40 percent retire at the prescribed retirement age while nearly half worry they will not have enough money to maintain a comfortable lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>Only 57 percent of respondents said they received professional financial advice before retiring.<\/p>\n<p>Many retirees are still paying off debt and have had to cut spending on groceries, home maintenance and medical aid.<\/p>\n<p>Sanlam says starting earlier and getting financial advice can improve retirement outcomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JOHANNESBURG &#8211; The latest Sanlam Benchmark Survey shows that South Africans are planning their retirement too late. While&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,49,48,133,131,132],"class_list":["post-760164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}