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Listed property an underpin for fixed income strategies

18 April 2012

Fund managers and other investment professionals can choose from four main asset classes when they structure a portfolio. These include bonds, cash, equities and property – where the property subset typically comprises the listed property investments on o

Treat financial services league tables with caution

27 March 2012

21st Century man is obsessed with measuring things. We rank our sports teams on the outcome of matches, political parties on the number of votes they receive during elections and fund managers on their portfolio returns over a given period of time. But th

Familiar insurance terms on life support

12 March 2012

South Africa’s long and short-term insurers face numerous challenges as the country’s financial services legislation evolves. The Insurance Laws Amendments Act of 2008 paved the way for the Financial Services Board (FSB) Binder Regulations – in effect fro

Short-term insurers must innovate to maintain underwriting margins

28 February 2012

Short-term insurance companies, like most businesses, trade through rising and falling cycles. In recent years local insurers have benefited from a “soft” rates cycle, as evidenced by their consistently improving underwriting margins. The bottom line is t

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

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

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