Retirement Products

Assupol Preservation Funds

If you resign, are dismissed or retrenched, you must decide what to do with your retirement savings. Don’t be tempted to use what you have built up. Preserve it to help provide you with a safe, comfortable and stress-free retirement.

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Policy benefits

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Uninterrupted growth

Your retirement savings can stay invested in the market with uninterrupted growth.

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Flexible investing

You choose the investment fund that suits your individual risk profile.

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Tax-free transfers

Your retirement savings won’t be taxed when you transfer them to the preservation fund, but will be taxed when you retire.

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Once off withdrawal

You can draw from the preservation fund once before retirement if you really need cash, but this money will be taxed.

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Early access to funds

Your money will be available to you from your 55th birthday, or earlier if you become disabled.

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Savings protection

Your retirement savings are protected against creditors.

We offer two types of preservation funds

Pension Fund

Provident Fund

When can I access my funds?

On retirement

On resignation or retirement

How does the payout work?

When you retire, you can access up to one third of the benefit in cash (which is taxable) and the remaining two thirds must be used to purchase an income annuity (which is also taxable).



If your total retirement is less than R247500, you can take the full benefit as a cash lump sum, subject to tax.

Prior to 1 March 2021,

  • On resignation or retirement, can take full cash lump sum (taxable). An annuity is not necessary to be purchased.

From 1 March 2021,

  • All the savings accumulated prior to 1 March 2021 are still subject to the old regulations.
  • If your total savings in the portion of the fund contributed after 1 March 2021 is less than R247 500, you can be allowed to take this portion in cash as well.
  • Necessary to purchase an annuity with 2/3 of the lump sum.

If you leave a company before you retire (resign or retrenched), you have the following options:

  • Keep your funds in the current retirement fund
  • You can move your savings to your new company’s fund (pension or provident)
  • You can move your savings to a preservation fund or retirement annuity fund
We offer two types of preservation funds

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