Simplifying retirement planning
February 28, 2022
The Old Mutual Savings and Investment Monitor 2021 report tells us that a third of respondents have no form of retirement saving and as many as 56% of South African consumers are experiencing overwhelming financial…
Helping customers to save in a pandemic economy
February 2, 2022
Millions of South Africans are trying to find ways to juggle a shrinking pocket with increasing expenses. The last five years have been rough in terms of inflation and rising living costs. The Old Mutual Savings and Investment…
A localised personal touch
February 1, 2022
With the fourth wave of COVID Still hanging over us, we spent some time with Jonathan Rosenberg, the CEO of Renasa Insurance, looking back at 2021 with its economic challenges and social unrest, and asked him…
Risk and Technology - An industry partnership
January 26, 2022
Herman Scheepers the General Manager for Risk and Technology at Renasa takes us through the role technology has played in the broker environment over the past two years and expands on the lasting benefits of…
ESG and the insurance industry
November 30, 2021
The journey from a voluntary regime for companies around environmental, social and governance (ESG) topics to a more regulated and compulsory one involving transparency, disclosure and reporting is well underway. Although there are currently no…
Building a world class business
October 11, 2021
Traditionally, UMAs are specialists in one area. However CIB seem to have broken the mould by doing business across broad lines, a couple of specialist lines as well as general lines. We caught up with Jon-Jon Smit, Executive…
Product contamination and recalls
September 22, 2021
Product contamination and recalls relating to food and beverages continue to make headlines globally. While the recall of a product can be very costly and logistically complex, the impact on the business as a whole…
The art of integration
September 15, 2021
We recently had a fascinating conversation with Wimpie van der Merwe, the CEO of Global Choices about the design thinking principles behind their value added products (VAPs) and the integration process. Listen to this interesting…
