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What’s inside… FAnews Magazine November 2020

18 November 2020 | The Stage

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I am not what I am ~ Iago: New normal dulls the shine of South Africa’s listed real estate sector

13 November 2020 | The Stage

Anyone who watched The Big Short, a 2015 American biographical film based on a similarly named-2010 book by Michael Lewis, will appreciate that financial markets can be manipulated. There are countless scenes in the movie that illustrate how conflict of interest and greed disrupt the mechanisms that are meant to feed back into market prices. A prime example of this was the heated argument between a housing market ‘shorter’ and a ratings agency representative, with the former accusing the latter of abandoning common sense in favour of profit when rating sub-prime mortgages.

The next big opportunity

11 November 2020 | Featured Story

Non-life insurance brokers in search of an emerging trend to take their brokerages to the next level could do worse than adding cyber liability insurance to their product mix. This is because cyber risk is emerging alongside climate change and pandemic as one of the greatest risks of modern times. A media release by global reinsurer, Munich Re, suggests that better preparation is needed to tackle emerging risk trends. “The coronavirus pandemic will be a lesson to us all,” wrote Torsten Jeworrek, Member of the Board of Management at the reinsurer. “We must take action more rapidly and vigorously to ensure that we are not as unprepared for other emerging risks as we were with COVID-19”. This action could include ensuring that both your commercial and personal lines clients are adequately protected against cyber risk.

Hardening rates and the pandemic

09 November 2020 | Straight Talk

Hardening rates and mistrust following non-life insurers’ handling of pandemic-related business interruption claims could make for tough negotiations when commercial non-life insurance brokers sit opposite their small and medium enterprise (SME) clients to renew policies. Recent news flows suggest that the next round of renewals could contain sharp increases across a range of insured perils. Global reinsurer Munich Re recently reported that the combination of a hardening insurance market, ‘lower for longer’ interest rates and larger than forecast pandemic and non-pandemic losses would make insurance covers more expensive, particularly for long term risks in third-party liability and other lines.

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Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee…: Analysts trade blows over whether to return offshore capital to South Africa

06 November 2020 | The Stage

Financial adviser’s battle cry: My kingdom for a digital solution

28 October 2020 | Straight Talk

Same policy, different outcome (not): Mass public sector employment not the answer to South Africa’s economic malaise

23 October 2020 | The Stage

What’s inside… FAnews Magazine October 2020

15 October 2020 | The Stage

O what a tangled web we weave… How fact and reality get sucked into the maelstrom of mainstream thinking

09 October 2020 | The Stage

“Please Sir, I want some more” - Bucket loads of cash needed to fund government’s populist pipe dreams

02 October 2020 | The Stage

Commission procurement clause just one piece of the transformation puzzle

29 September 2020 | Featured Story

UK non-life policyholders find patchy relief

28 September 2020 | Straight Talk

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