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Absa Life Botswana gets the approval to rebrand to Barclays Life Botswana

28 August 2013 | Absa

Absa Life Botswana (Pty) Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Absa Financial Services Limited (AFS), has received approval from the relevant authorities in South Africa and Botswana to change its brand name to Barclays Life Botswana (Pty) Limited.

Mutual & Federal buys Agricola

27 August 2013 | Old Mutual Insure (was Mutual & Federal)

Mutual & Federal recently announced its acquisition of Agricola, the only specialized crop underwriting manager in South Africa, with effect from 1 August 2013. This follows a two year association in which Mutual & Federal underwrote some of Agricola’s bu

Sigma - preliminary estimates for H1 2013: Catastrophes cost global insurance industry more than USD 20 billion

21 August 2013 | Swiss Re

• Total economic losses from disasters reached USD 56 billion in H1 2013 • Insured losses from natural catastrophes totalled USD 17 billion, with flooding a main driver • Around 7 000 lives were lost as a result of natural catastrophes and man-made

Ratings for Guardrisk from Fitch Ratings

20 August 2013 | General

Leading international ratings agency, Fitch Ratings has rated three companies in the Guardrisk Group: Guardrisk Insurance and Guardrisk Life received National Insurer Financial Strength (IFS) ratings of 'AA(zaf)’; and the group’s Mauritius operation, Guar

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