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April 24, 2025
#AIE2025: Top speakers, relevant topics, interactive breakaways
The African Insurance Exchange 2025 unveils a dynamic two-day programme featuring top keynote speakers, high-impact plenaries, and deep-dive breakaways—designed to spark meaningful dialogue, drive innovation, and explore Africa’s evolving insurance landscape. Join us at Sun City and online.
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April 24, 2025
A New age dawns on financial advice
Financial advice is evolving into a people-first, tech-enhanced service focused on personalisation, values-based investing, and collaborative planning. Advisers are becoming trusted partners, guiding clients through life’s goals with ethical insight, innovation, and deep human connection at the core.
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April 24, 2025
What is a holistic financial plan? And why it matters
A holistic financial plan begins with defining your personal goals and assessing your finances. With guidance from a qualified adviser, budgeting, debt management, investing, and protection strategies create a flexible, robust foundation for long-term financial success and peace of mind.
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April 24, 2025
GENRIC's Investment in Learnerships and Internships Bridges South Africa's Skills Gap in the Insurance Sector
GENRIC Insurance achieved a 100% pass rate and full employment placement for its 2024 learnership graduates, affirming its commitment to youth empowerment and skills development in insurance through impactful partnerships, mentorship, and industry-aligned qualifications.
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April 24, 2025
The Elements that Influence how Clients Make Financial Decisions
Sean Hanlon highlights key behavioural biases impacting financial decisions: sticking to the familiar, loss aversion, anchoring, framing, and mental accounting. Recognising these biases enables advisers to create tailored strategies, fostering better financial habits and empowering clients to make smarter, more informed choices.
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April 24, 2025
China: Tailwinds persist despite trade turbulence
Foord remains cautiously optimistic about Chinese equities in 2025. Despite trade tensions and tariffs, government support, property recovery, regulatory easing, and long-term growth drivers like AI and green energy underpin opportunities in undervalued sectors.
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April 23, 2025
Africa Re records another historical performance for the 2024 Financial Year
Africa Re achieved record revenue and net profit in 2024, despite currency depreciation impacts. Key highlights include US$1.214 billion gross written premium, US$87.3 million underwriting profit, US$89.3 million investment income, and US$132.4 million net profit, demonstrating resilience and growth.
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April 22, 2025
How much has Trump shaken up the equity market?
Following tariff announcements in April 2025, U.S. equity markets declined sharply, with the S&P 500 down 13.9% year-to-date. Policy uncertainty has driven up both realised and implied volatility, prompting caution. Prescient’s models currently reflect a moderately negative U.S. equity outlook.
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April 22, 2025
FSCA proposes new reporting and disclosure requirements for short sales
The FSCA has released a revised draft conduct standard on short sale reporting for public comment by 19 May 2025. It introduces phased positional reporting, bans naked short sales, and aims to enhance market transparency and stability.
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April 22, 2025
PPS achieves record-breaking performance
PPS reported a record R5.33 billion Profit-Share allocation to members in 2024, driven by strong operating and investment performance. Total member benefits reached R5.95 billion, reflecting the group's continued mutual model focus and growth in life-risk and investment business.
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Technology has become indispensable in the digital age. As for the insurance and financial industries, if you had the privilege, or foresight, to attend COVER's TechFest2023, you would have heard from the various presenters how crucial innovation on the back of technology has become for survival and a sustainable competitive strategy.
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