The Financial Intermediaries Association of Southern Africa (FIA) and Santam have partnered to launch the FIA Transformation Initiative, a campaign focused on accelerating transformation in the South African intermediary space. Santam has been […]
Bert Lance, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget in Jimmy Carter’s 1977 administration, is attributed with coining this phrase. Bad grammar apart, he believed he could save Uncle Sam billions […]
Bert Lance, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget in Jimmy Carter’s 1977 administration, is attributed with coining this phrase. Bad grammar apart, he believed he could save Uncle Sam billions […]
In a media release, the Association for Savings and Investment South Africa (ASISA) and its members expressed support for meaningful changes to the current retirement system that are aimed at strengthening preservation of […]
According to Moneyweb, the South African Special Risks Insurance Association (Sasria) expects claims related to the unrest in July to amount to R20 billion, with 10% of the amount to be paid out […]
South African life insurers reported a 12% increase in fraudulent and dishonest claims across all lines of risk business in 2020, with a monetary increase of over R50 million. Some of the examples […]
The rather surprising decision by ABSA to close the biggest money market fund in the country had quite an impact on the latest data published by ASISA last week. The local Collective Investment […]
Last week the Department of Social Development published a green paper on proposed social security and retirement reforms for public comment. And boy, did they get that. Solidarity has threatened with court action […]
A media release from PSG provides very interesting information on the need for clients to review their retirement planning in the wake of the impact the pandemic might have on this. Schalk Louw, […]
ENSafrica recently published an interesting article on one of the after-effects of Covid termed “Long COVID” and provided some proactive measures that employers can take to identify and manage it in the workplace. […]
“SARS is tightening tax collection on cryptocurrency transactions, which makes it important to distinguish between events that will trigger income tax rates or CGT rates.” Thus notes Webber Wentzel’s Joon Chong and Lumen […]
With all the prominence given to this matter, it is difficult to believe that some 40% of Santam’s qualifying clients have yet to submit their claims documentation. Santam issued another appeal to clients […]
With all the prominence given to this matter, it is difficult to believe that some 40% of Santam’s qualifying clients have yet to submit their claims documentation. Santam issued another appeal to clients […]
In a media release on 3 August, vehicle tracking company Tracker provides details of changing trends in the theft and highjacking of vehicles over the past 25 years. The statistics indicate that the […]
An article in Businesstech reports on the latest developments in addressing historical and structural inequalities in the financial sector. National Treasury is developing new legislation that will “seek to enhance the transformation imperatives […]
A 300-page diagnosis of the South African Ombud systems while the Olympics were on, and the Boks had to beat the British and Irish Lions to avoid a series defeat was quite a […]
Last year, the insurance industry staggered under the impact of Covid-19. Life assurers had to fork out billions in death claims, and non-life insurers were caught unawares when the courts ruled against them […]
