A six-year review
Notably, when we launched our new research publication in 2013, we didn’t call it Retirements Monitor or the Pension Fund Monitor, but rather, quite deliberately, Benefits Barometer. And, just as deliberately, we made sure that the discussion remained open about whose benefit we were addressing.
We needed to convey a message to employers, fiduciaries, policymakers and the industry that getting the right benefits to employees had a significant multiplier effect to the workplace, to society and to the broader economy. When Benefits Barometer was first released in 2013, the then Minister of Finance, Pravin Gordhan, echoed this clarion call when he made this point: