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Sometimes, these climate activists be like crazy

08 December 2022

If you follow the international newswires then, you might be excused for concluding that sections of the global climate activist community have lost the proverbial plot. Recent headlines that illustrate today’s opening premise include Sky.com: ‘Just Stop Oil protestors throw tomato soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers’; The Guardian: ‘Climate activists throw mashed potatoes at Monet work’; and Reuters: ‘Climate activists glue themselves to sports cars’. More recently, you will have read about British citizens scaling gantries over the M25 highway to ‘save the planet’ by causing multi-lane, multi-kilometre traffic jams…

Insurers, know your war limits

08 November 2022

Insurance brokers, insurers, reinsurers and risk managers have survived a terrible few years, learning hard lessons about the impact of systemic risks on their operations and profitability. The 2020-21 COVID-19 pandemic caught the entire non-life insurance sector off-guard, with global insurer and reinsurer exposures to business interruption (BI) losses far exceeding what had ever been envisaged. Natural catastrophes packed a punch too, with reinsurer Munich Re confirming that earthquakes, floods, storms, wildfires and other extreme weather events destroyed assets totalling US$280 billion in 2021!

Insurers’ profit bonanza little more than a post-crisis clawback

20 October 2022

The first reaction when comparing South Africa’s life and non-life insurers’ 2021 performance to 2020 is to uncork the champers and celebrate the apparent profit bonanza, but on a more reasoned assessment one would have to leave the bubbly on ice and accept the surge in headline numbers as little more than a gradual return to pre-pandemic levels. This is especially true for the non-life insurers included in The South African Insurance Industry Survey 2022, published recently by KPMG. The survey analysed the results of 34 non-life insurers, 19 life insurers and 4 reinsurers.

The ESG metamorphosis is just beginning

26 September 2022

If you are tired of being served up an almost daily dose of environmental, social and governance (ESG) news and opinion, then this writer has bad news for you: there will be plenty more ESG-focused content winging its way to an inbox or newsletter you have access to. And despite billions of dollars in institutional and retail investment already flowing to environmentally and socially focused funds, the global asset management industry is still in the first stages of what will become a multi-year ESG metamorphosis.

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Moving the conversation from product to advice

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A war cry for advisers: disrupt or fail

27 June 2022

Big insurance happenings in Africa

17 May 2022

SA stunned by weather catastrophe in KZN

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Protecting your clients from pandemic, riot and war

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Can we repeat these staggering returns in 2022?

02 March 2022

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