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August 1, 2025
Climate Volatility Disrupts Global Supply Chains
Aon South Africa’s 2025 Client Trends Report highlights how climate volatility is disrupting trade, supply chains, and key sectors like agriculture and transport. Businesses are urged to adopt resilient infrastructure, diversify supply chains, and use insurance and risk modelling to adapt.
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August 1, 2025
MPC rate cut offers relief, but inflation remains central to policy outlook
Citadel’s Maarten Ackerman welcomes the SARB’s 25bps rate cut, calling it a prudent move in a weak growth, low inflation environment. He notes it signals confidence in inflation control and supports investors, while cautioning against short-term portfolio shifts.
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August 1, 2025
SARB Cuts Rate, Targets 3% Inflation - Markets Hesitant
The SARB cut rates by 25bps to 7.0% and shifted its inflation target focus to 3.0%, signalling a major policy change. Despite unchanged official targets, long-term forecasts were lowered, raising key questions about future rate paths and market impact.
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August 1, 2025
Igniting the future – can insurance inspire the next generation?
Episode 3 of The Insurance Apprentice 2025, sponsored by INSETA, challenges contestants to sell insurance as a dream career to South Africa’s youth, spotlighting scarce skills and future talent needs through creative, engaging pitches judged by 18-year-olds.
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August 1, 2025
Centriq and Axxis expand into engineering insurance with new UMA
Centriq Insurance has launched Axxis Engineering Solutions, a specialist underwriting manager formed in partnership with Axxis Risk Solutions and industry experts Marcel de Jager and Justin Faure, to meet rising market demand for tailored, high-quality engineering insurance solutions.
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July 31, 2025
South Africans take bold action toward financial freedom
The 2025 Old Mutual Savings & Investment Monitor reveals growing financial confidence among working South Africans. Amid economic pressures, more are embracing poly-jobbing, managing debt, and prioritising savings, especially the youth, signalling a hopeful shift toward financial resilience and empowerment
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July 31, 2025
Stand OUT SMEs empowered with R1 million grant funding
OUTsurance’s Kwande ESD Programme, in partnership with Edge Growth, empowers SMEs through mentorship, funding and development. Nine finalists recently competed for a share of R1 million, highlighting the programme’s impact in driving growth, innovation and community upliftment.
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July 30, 2025
PSG clinches Wealth Manager of the year for the 7th year running
PSG Wealth was awarded the Top Wealth Manager of the Year: Large Institutions at the recent Krutham Top Private Banks and Wealth Managers Awards and scooped most awards in other categories yet again.
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July 30, 2025
Deciphering Dollar Declines
Despite political turbulence, the dollar’s recent decline signals a potential turning point after a 15-year bull run. While not the end of dollar dominance, global investors are rethinking exposure. For South Africans, weaker dollar cycles could ease pressure on the rand.
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July 30, 2025
Designing for Disruption: Building Redundancy into South Africa's Digital Infrastructure
Africa Data Centres CEO Adil El Youssefi highlights the risks of centralised internet infrastructure, following a major South African outage. He urges businesses to prioritise redundancy, diversify connectivity paths, and embed resilience into digital infrastructure to ensure continuity and performance.
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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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