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The onus of proving a claim under lockdown

07 April 2021 | Featured Story

We summed up some case studies from the Ombudsman for Short Term Insurance’s (OSTI) briefcase, which we thought would be interesting for our readers.

Brokers be warned… Group risk premiums set for take-off

06 April 2021 | Straight Talk

The latest statistics from the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) show a clear surge in South Africa’s mortality experience through COVID-19. Analysts are now suggesting that actual deaths due to the disease are some 2.5 to 3 times higher than government’s official numbers. “Our death experience very closely tracked the national statistics and the national pattern reported to date,” says Reinier Van Gijsen, Head of Pricing at Sanlam Corporate. He was presenting on the impact of COVID-19 on group insurance at an In conversation with Sanlam Corporate event.

The whooshing sound of deadlines rushing by…

29 March 2021 | The Stage

As a writer, I pride myself on meeting deadlines; but I am not innocent of one of the world’s costliest follies, procrastination. Defined as “the action of delaying or postponing something”, procrastination affects each of us differently.

A half-trillion reasons to love insurance

17 March 2021 | Featured Story

South Africa’s long term insurance sector paid out R522.7 billion to policyholders and beneficiaries in claims and other benefits last year. The country’s life insurers lived up to the ‘value of insurance’ mantra by offering emergency premium relief to policyholders in addition to meeting death, disability, severe illness and income protection claims as they came due.

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Are private markets net good for asset managers & investors?

12 March 2021 | The Stage

Too many praise singers obscure SA’s fiscal reality

08 March 2021 | The Stage

FIA weighs in on NHI, healthcare brokers and medical schemes

02 March 2021 | Straight Talk

Is welfare the best medicine for inequality?

01 March 2021 | The Stage

A cash flow nightmare for taxpayers

22 February 2021 | The Stage

A third wave for winter

22 February 2021 | Featured Story

Can brokers fault the regulator’s BI view?

16 February 2021 | Straight Talk

What’s inside… FAnews Magazine February 2021

11 February 2021 | The Stage

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