The group says the industry is moving towards customised solutions, prompting it to hand active management to Ninety One and focus on alternatives, distribution, and emerging markets.
The revised approach extends access to higher levels of death, disability, and income protection cover for qualifying members.
The GIFT City operation, together with the Lloyd’s syndicate and Avatar acquisition, is part of the group’s move to broaden its risk base and underwriting capabilities.
The tie-up will begin with global equity and emerging market ETFs and is designed to widen access to active strategies across international markets.
The bank says its AI-driven banking and fraud prevention systems have reduced fraud on flagged transactions by 85%.
Global shocks may be getting harder to forecast, and the real task is constructing portfolios that can withstand a wider range of outcomes.
The insurtech says the new app is a step towards a future where AI assistants could help consumers to manage and automate parts of their insurance decisions.
The system appears to be changing member behaviour at exit from employment, even as most eligible members continue to make withdrawals.
Fuel-price shocks, sticky services inflation, and global pressures are making it harder for the SARB to keep inflation anchored near its new goal, says Sanlam.
IRFA also sets out how exit withdrawals now work when a member resigns and has already withdrawn from the savings component in the tax year.
The insurer says reinsurance protection has increased significantly, and it has secured full reinsurance for 2026/27 for the first time in three years.
Nearly nine years after the claim was lodged, the fund still could not confirm whether the benefit had been allocated or paid.
A former Google X executive says humanity faces 12 to 15 turbulent years as AI disrupts jobs, economies, and power structures before ushering in an age of abundance.
The Reserve Bank is not ruling out more rate tightening after successive fuel price jumps have revived inflation risks.
IRFA says the FSCA is engaging with the Department of Employment and Labour on the issue.
The judgment criticises the Fund’s continued resistance to medical-expense claims already addressed in earlier Western Cape rulings.
The White Paper describes how municipalities and households are being financially squeezed by escalating input costs – particularly for electricity.
