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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.

Are private markets net good for asset managers & investors?

12 March 2021 | The Stage

The global asset management industry appears to have shifted focus from the active versus passive debate to an all-consuming concern with achieving environmental, social and governance (ESG), impact and sustainable investing outcomes. It is not a hard sell to get investors on board the ESG train; but one has to wonder whether the win-win is stacked in the asset managers’ or investors’ favour.

Too many praise singers obscure SA’s fiscal reality

08 March 2021 | The Stage

If one judges the 2021 National Budget speech solely on economists’ reviews, one could be excused for thinking that South Africa Inc is in robust health and under excellent political management. We have read countless articles and attended a handful of post-budget presentations during which government, National Treasury and Tito Mboweni, our minster of finance, were enthusiastically applauded for a job well done.

FIA weighs in on NHI, healthcare brokers and medical schemes

02 March 2021 | Straight Talk

We were among thousands of South Africans who listened attentively to the 2021 National Budget in the hope that our Minister of Finance would offer some insights into the future of healthcare provision. We fully expected the minister to explain how the roll out of the country’s National Health Insurance (NHI) programme would impact on the national budget in coming years. But he never mentioned healthcare funding at all, leaving it to commentators to go over the detailed statements released alongside his speech for further details. Our readers are interested in NHI because it will have a profound impact on the private healthcare sector and influence the long term sustainability of medical schemes and health insurance distribution.

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If you had to hazard a guess, when do you reckon the COFI Bill will be signed into law?

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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

How GameStop heroes had their asses handed to them!

08 February 2021 | The Stage

A broker by any other name

03 February 2021 | Featured Story

Will brokers survive NHI?

02 February 2021 | Straight Talk

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