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The Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) has been compelled to shut down its systems after detecting an attempted unauthorised access. In a statement, GEPF explained that the incident, which ...

Public sector employees can rest assured that despite the shenanigans at the Public Investment Commission, which manages the bulk of their pension fund, their assets are in relatively good shape. But, ...

Transformation to meet broadbased black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) goals at South Africa’s biggest pension fund is about to begin. The Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) is a defined pension ...

The Investment Committee of the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) and the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) stated their positions on the collapse of Steinhoff in a joint statement on ...

Cape Town - The Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) assured its members, pensioners and beneficiaries that it has not received any proposal to help fund South African Airways (SAA). GEPF is ...

THE devastating impact of Covid-19 has left many people not only dealing with the loss of a loved one, but also the frustration of paperwork to access death and spousal pension benefits to keep their ...

The Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) has implemented a number of the recommendations made by the Mpati Commission of Inquiry into allegations of impropriety at the Public Investment ...

The GEPF says it concluded negotiations with the finance minister about the geographic allocation of its assets in October 2020. The revised allocation for offshore investments has moved from a ...