The future is digital. But will it be human?

What if the future of innovation… wasn’t more tech? This year’s Techfest keynote asks us to rethink what it means to lead in an era where intelligence is everywhere - except where it counts.  

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September 23, 2025
Heritage Day: Celebrate safely without risking your home
Elite Risk Acceptances MD, Tarina Vlok, urges South Africans to enjoy braai traditions safely this Heritage Day. With luxury homes particularly vulnerable to wildfires and accidental damage, she shares practical fire-prevention tips to protect property, lives, and cherished celebrations.
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September 23, 2025
FIA Newly Elected Board Announcement
The Financial Intermediaries Association (FIA) has elected a new Board, with Ronald King as President and Greg Setzkorn as Vice-President. The leadership team strengthens FIA’s mission to champion independent advisers and ensure quality, accessible financial advice across South Africa.
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September 23, 2025
Living longer, planning smarter
PPS Investments’ Fran Troskei highlights the “longevity liability” women face, living longer but often retiring with less wealth. She calls for tailored strategies, extended growth phases, and greater financial education to ensure women can sustain themselves well beyond working life.
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September 23, 2025
Bonitas unveils 2026 product range
Bonitas Medical Fund’s 2026 product range focuses on affordability, digital innovation, and preventative care. With new plans like BonCore and BonPrime, enhanced wellness benefits, and mental health support, the scheme delivers practical, member-centric solutions while maintaining financial stability and accessibility.
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September 23, 2025
Is all that glitters gold?
Allan Gray’s Umar-Farooq Kagee explores gold’s resurgence as a trusted store of value amid de-dollarisation, rising debt, and geopolitical shifts. With central banks increasing reserves and miners outperforming, investors can benefit through balanced exposure to both physical gold and equities.
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September 23, 2025
Which equity styles are performing well? The answer may surprise you
Global investors risk missing opportunities by assuming US stock performance reflects the world. Schroders’ Duncan Lamont highlights how Value and High Dividend stocks are thriving internationally, while Growth and Quality struggle, challenging assumptions, reshaping valuations, and underscoring the case for active, diversified investing.
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September 23, 2025
SanlamAllianz Re appoints Tobias Suek as new CEO
SanlamAllianz Re, the reinsurance arm of SanlamAllianz, has announced the appointment of Tobias Suek as its new Chief Executive Officer effective 15 October 2025, subject to regulatory approval.
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September 19, 2025
Finalists for the 2025 FPI Financial Planner of the Year Award
The 2025 Financial Planner of the Year finalists, Brendan Dunn, Theoniel Mcdonald, and Nicola Langridge, exemplify excellence, innovation, and client-focused practice, with the winner to be celebrated at the FPI Gala, alongside awards recognising diversity, leadership, and professional achievement.
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September 19, 2025
South Africans increasingly travelling for ‘bleisure’ and other travel trends
Jason Veitch highlights evolving South African travel trends, from “bleisure” trips and island getaways to longer senior journeys and underscores the critical role of comprehensive travel insurance amid rising medical costs and accidental injury risks abroad.
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September 19, 2025
Bad money behaviour is not simply our “heritage”
Nick Wolmarans highlights South Africa’s inherited financial habits, poor saving, debt reliance, underinsurance, and urges a mindset shift toward long-term wealth, strategic planning, and professional advice, showing how the nation can turn resilience into sustainable financial prosperity.
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Download the 2023 TechFest eBook

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.

In this e-book we feature a comprehensive overview of all the presentations and round table discussions. The videos of the sessions, for the full experience, can be viewed on our website.

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