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Breakfast is in conversation with Old Mutual Corporate, unpacking the thinking behind this year's Old Mutual Thought Leaders Forum.

The true measure, I suppose, of any employee benefit strategy isn't just the award it wins, it's the difference it makes to how people retire.

So at this year's Old Mutual Superfund Employer Excellence Awards, Volterra Platinum took top honours for the second consecutive year after improving its members' projected retirement outcomes significantly.

by 15.6%, this in just 12 months.

Joining us to explain how all of that was achieved and how other employers can learn from it, we've got Vuyo Mglileni, who's the Senior Employee Benefits Consultant at Old Mutual.

Vuyo, very good morning to you.

Thank you for coming in firstly and welcome to 702 Breakfast.

We ask ourselves, well, how much money do I need? Do I have enough money when I retire? I mean, it's something that keeps me awake at night.

And joining me to understand this and to understand what needs to change is Kerry Lee Edmund, who is head of business intelligence at Old Mutual Corporate, to unpack that latest research that's come out and what the data reveals about South Africans and their saving habits and whether or not we're finally starting to see signs of progress.

Kerry Lee, welcome to you.

Thank you for joining us.

And so I would encourage youngsters for any income that you get, make sure that you are putting away the 10 to 15 percent because you'll thank yourself later.

Wonderful advice.

Kerry Lee Edmond, who is head of business intelligence at Old Mutual Corporate.

Thank you so much for joining us for this episode of What's Next.

Yeah, so I felt very fortunate in that I was sort of very fresh, young and green.

I'd spent sort of about 18 months working at Old Mutual Asset Management in Cape Town, helping them build out their sort of valuations module for all of their derivative positions.

And then got an interview with a company called Stonehaig at the time.

which was a trust and fiduciary business and was just starting a investment management division.

Africa has such enormous both responsibility and opportunity in this global AI future, given the resources that are there, the youth that is there, and the importance that AI is going to have on the entire continent.

in terms of transforming you know education and health care you guys know all this i want to personally thank the man brothers shane and mick for their commitment and action in building an abundant future for south africa and frankly for the entire continent over the past decade and for singularity south africa's mission to bring an exponential mindset to the continent I want to say also a quick thank you to Old Mutual for their support over the last three years, to Google Cloud, my friends at Google are doing an extraordinary job for their 2026 event sponsorship, and a shout out to a few of my friends there who are speaking at the summit as well, Arul Pal, Kathy Hackle, and a special shout out to my dear friend David Roberts.

Yeah.

Let me share some content here.

They reflect what society prizes at a particular point in time, particularly political leaders.

And you've, of course, held multiple leadership positions, of course, Old Mutual Investments Group, Stanlib, and even Liberty.

But Tabu, talk to us about that, your time there.

Yeah, I mean, I think I've been fortunate to be thrust at a very young age into quite difficult transformational roles, which really shaped me as a leader and shaped me in terms of how it prepared me for the next challenge.

So I think Old Mutual prided itself in that.

making sure that the young leaders were developed, were exposed in different situations, different business units, different courses that really shaped them.

And I think really that stood me in good stead as I moved along and led different types of businesses.