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Evaluating South African Pension Funds’ Ecosystem Trends and Framework of Actions for the Government Pensions Administration Agency (GPAA)

Author(s) Mr. Feresane Matthew Sibeko
Country South Africa
Abstract As trends in South Africa’s pension funds’ ecosystem continue to change, periodic analysis of such trends is quite essential for discerning how the government pensions’ administration can improve its performance to create and deliver the desired pension values and benefits for the members. In that context, this research paper offers a critical analysis of the South African pension funds’ ecosystem trends, so as to assess the strategic framework of actions that can be adopted to improve the performance of the government pensions administration. Findings revealed the critical political trends shaping the nature of pension administration encompass the introduction of the three-pot-system as well as the increasingly emerging stronger quasi-political groups that seek to influence not only how much the government pays for pension, but also how and when such pensions funds are managed and distributed. In addition to taking cognizant of the unfolding volatile economic trends like inflation, unemployment, the lingering negative Covid-19 economic effects and the increasing interest rates, social trends also reflected the increasingly ageing South African population as well as social lifestyle changes that may dictate whether or not the members may preserve or attempt to utilise all their pensions before the prescribed retirement age of 65. Combined with the introduction of the Financial Sector Regulation (FSR) Act 9 of 2017, Regulation 28 of the Pension Funds Act, Older Persons Act and the Madrid Plan of Action on Ageing & Amendment of the Income Tax Act and the Pension Funds Act that will introduce the Three-Pot-System, it is argued that the new approach would require the development and improvement of the online pension management system to take advantage of the internet-of-things to improve operational efficiency, lower operational costs and improve the quality of services offered to clients/members. Besides the utilisation of the modern big data technologies to enhance the effective gathering, analysis, storage, retrieval and utilisation of GPAA’s enormous amount of data in different executives’ decision-making, the new framework will also require increment of the investment of the members’ pension funds in high interest generating ventures so as to insulate the values of the pension funds against inflation.
Keywords Government Pensions Administration; Pension Administration; Pension Management; PESTEL; GPAA’s Performance
Field Business Administration
Published In Volume 7, Issue 3, May-June 2025
Published On 2025-06-19
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i03.47837
Short DOI https://doi.org/g9qxcd
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