Pensions, Benefits & Financial Services Attorney
Attorney and former partner / director of Fasken attorneys (incorporated in South Africa as Bell Dewar Inc). Now working as part-time counsel for Fasken in Sandton.
Rosemary practised as an attorney and consultant at Edward Nathan, Hunter Employee Benefits Law (Pty) Ltd (Hunter Law) and Bowmans specialising in pension and employee benefits law for approximately 16 years before she was appointed by the Minister of Finance as deputy registrar of pension funds and deputy executive officer of the Financial Services Board for a period of three years from August 2013.
Following the expiry of her contract of employment with the FSB, Rose returned to legal practice as an attorney with Fasken attorneys (incorporated in South Africa as Bell Dewar Inc) in Sandton.
Rose was the editor and principal author of a textbook The Pension Funds Act: A Commentary which she co-wrote with her then colleagues Johan Esterhuizen, Tashia Jithoo and Sandile Khumalo and which was published by their firm Hunter Law in 2010 and has been cited in numerous judgments of our courts since then. She has also written or co-authored chapters in numerous books, including, most recently a chapter entitled ‘Pension Funds’ in Goodspeed, I. et al, Understanding South African Financial Markets 7th ed. van Schaik Johannesburg 2025.
Her legal opinion for Just Share, a South African NGO and Client Earth, a UK based NGO, The duty of the board of a pension fund to take climate change into account when making investment decisions, (April 2019) was published on the Just Share website at https://justshare.org.za/pension-funds-climate-risk, widely circulated and cited in reputable publications.
Rose is a visiting senior lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand for which she teaches pension law to LLM, PG Dip and Certificate in Pension Law students.
From 2021 and until the magazine closed recently, she was a member of the editorial board of Today’s Trustee, a quarterly publication circulating in the financial services industry.
She was legal advisor to, and trainer for, the Unpaid Benefits Campaign from 2018 to 2024.
Rosemary practised as an attorney and consultant at Edward Nathan, Hunter Employee Benefits Law (Pty) Ltd (Hunter Law) and Bowmans specialising in pension and employee benefits law for approximately 16 years before she was appointed by the Minister of Finance as deputy registrar of pension funds and deputy executive officer of the Financial Services Board for a period of three years from August 2013.
Following the expiry of her contract of employment with the FSB, Rose returned to legal practice as an attorney with Fasken attorneys (incorporated in South Africa as Bell Dewar Inc) in Sandton.
Rose was the editor and principal author of a textbook The Pension Funds Act: A Commentary which she co-wrote with her then colleagues Johan Esterhuizen, Tashia Jithoo and Sandile Khumalo and which was published by their firm Hunter Law in 2010 and has been cited in numerous judgments of our courts since then. She has also written or co-authored chapters in numerous books, including, most recently a chapter entitled ‘Pension Funds’ in Goodspeed, I. et al, Understanding South African Financial Markets 7th ed. van Schaik Johannesburg 2025.
Her legal opinion for Just Share, a South African NGO and Client Earth, a UK based NGO, The duty of the board of a pension fund to take climate change into account when making investment decisions, (April 2019) was published on the Just Share website at https://justshare.org.za/pension-funds-climate-risk, widely circulated and cited in reputable publications.
Rose is a visiting senior lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand for which she teaches pension law to LLM, PG Dip and Certificate in Pension Law students.
From 2021 and until the magazine closed recently, she was a member of the editorial board of Today’s Trustee, a quarterly publication circulating in the financial services industry.
She was legal advisor to, and trainer for, the Unpaid Benefits Campaign from 2018 to 2024.
