The course content addresses the following topics:
- Occupational retirement funding versus the provision of social welfare pensions, and the different forms of retirement funds;
- Membership, rules, and what funds can and cannot do;
- Contributions to funds;
- Benefits on and after retirement, including spouses pension;
- Benefits payable on termination of membership before retirement, on death before retirement and on permanent disablement before retirement;
- Duties of the boards of retirement funds;
- The splitting of retirement savings on divorce;
- Deductions from retirement savings;
- Protection of pension benefits against reduction, attachment etc, with specific reference to maintenance claims;
- Rights of access to fund information, dispute resolution, and the enforcement of member's rights;
- Tax treatment of benefits paid by pension and provident funds.