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The ‘black diamond’ is here to stay

20 June 2008 | Featured Story

One of the most enlightening presentations at this year’s Masthead Professional Development day was by Professor John Simpson. Simpson is the director of the UCT Unilever Institute of Strategic Marketing. His presentation dealt with a section of the South

Can we afford to loose 64% of our doctors?

06 June 2008 | Straight Talk

One of the first articles FAnews Online carried this year dealt with government’s determination to tackle soaring costs at private hospitals. We looked at the impact of the Council for Medical Schemes and Department of Health’s vendetta on the share price

Judge not lest you be judged

06 June 2008 | The Stage

Have you ever spent time reflecting on the careers you considered when you were younger? During grade school your preferred ‘job’ almost always had a public service leaning. Young boys wanted to be policeman, soldiers or firemen while girls would inevitab

Sanlam to be tested by economic curveball

06 June 2008 | Featured Story

One of South Africa’s life assurance giants, Sanlam Limited, presented an operational update in Johannesburg earlier this week. The update covers the four months to April 2008 and the group went to great lengths to explain that these results were un-audit

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Do you think short-term insurance broking will survive the AI plus humanoid robotics age?

Answer

Human first always Not a chance Possibly maybe Yes, but reimagined

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