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Have our retirement funds been misallocated?

Date Uploaded: April 17 2026 08:00


To achieve a sustainable recovery in investment and growth, South Africa needs to mobilise patient capital on stable, affordable terms. However, in what has arguably been a substantial misallocation of capital, the country’s collective savings have been systematically steered, over the past 20 years, towards equities and offshore investments at the expense of domestic government bonds. This article first appeared in Business Day on 17 April 2026