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Two buckets to help your clients with financial bailouts

24 August 2021 | Featured Story

There are plenty of painful similarities between your client’s retirement savings arrangements and the ill-fated maiden voyage of the Titanic. The journeys, one an Atlantic ocean crossing and the other a four-decade-decade long bumble to retirement, flash by at breakneck speed. Both the captain of the cruise liner and your client valiantly cling to their respective vessels, a ship and a retirement plan respectively, long after the evidence demands that they let go… And if South Africa’s oft-reported retirement savings outcomes are anything to go by, then your client’s savings plan, just like the Titanic, may be doomed to a watery grave.

On fluffy ponies, purple unicorns, virtual love and other crypto craziness

16 August 2021 | Straight Talk

The world of blockchain, cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has delivered more than its share of laugh-out-loud and what-the-fluff moments in the past months. My most recent fall-off-the-chair-laughing moment came courtesy this gem of a headline on News24: ‘Fugitive SA crypto developer ‘Fluffypony’ arrested in the US’. I challenge you, dear reader, to recite that out loud without laughing. It is not my intention to waste column inches on why someone might go by the nom de plume Fluffypony, and my only objective in sharing this headline was to illustrate that anything dealing with crypto, no matter how inane, is considered newsworthy these days. (You may wish to read the Fin24 article, which includes reference to ‘Cape Cookies’ for extra laughs.)

What’s inside… FAnews Magazine August 2021

16 August 2021 | The Stage

The August edition is packed with articles you want to read. We have over 19 200 registered CPD users, and with this mail we are reminding you to make sure you stay up to date with your CPD hours. We’ve touched on content and issues that are topical and relevant, and ultimately written for you, to empower you. The articles are written by industry experts and FAnews journalists, so if there’s a topic you would want to read more about, or have very specific issues or questions about, please don’t hesitate to raise it with us. Over and above our focus on life, disability, income protection and critical illness, we’ve touched on many relevant topics, ranging from business interruption, POPIA, retirement, a look at the recent riots and a fantastic women’s feature.

On lockdown, unrest and insurance

04 August 2021 | Featured Story

The two years starting 2020 have presented untold challenges to insurers, regardless of whether they underwrite risks in the medical, life or non-life disciplines. First, we suffered the hammer blow of the Covid-19 pandemic, which was confirmed early-2020 and continues to ripple through society to this day. Second, and an extra for SA-based insurers to endure, we were broadsided by a week-long period of looting, rioting and vandalism that tore through Gauteng and KwaZulu Natal in July 2021. The cost of insured loss and damage due to ‘civil commotion’ will be picked up by Sasria SOC Limited and its reinsurance partners; but all insurers, as agents of Sasria, have been roped in to assist with administration and claims assessment and settlement.

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Trust… Make or break for brokers, insurer and UMAs

02 August 2021 | Straight Talk

Crypto assets: The round-trip from ‘no fundamentals’ to the moon

02 August 2021 | The Stage

Up in flames. South Africa’s R12 … R25 … R50 billion looting conundrum

20 July 2021 | The Stage

Five regulatory discussion points for brokers to keep an eye on

06 July 2021 | Featured Story

‘Brokers’ note: Your clients want to buy risk cover’

05 July 2021 | Straight Talk

Financial advice a game changer in battle for preservation

25 June 2021 | Featured Story

Insurers manage to navigate through COVID-19

24 June 2021 | Straight Talk

An update on the regulatory front

17 June 2021 | Straight Talk

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