Strong market performance lifts assets to record highs, but lapses and protection gaps persist beneath the surface.
The Financial Sector Transformation Council (FSTC) has given entities operating in the financial sector until 12 August to submit their broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) compliance reports for 2020/21. Section 10(4) of the […]
Santam’s current “best estimate” of its gross exposure to the KwaZulu-Natal floods in April is R3.2 billion. However, reinsurance cover will limit the net impact to about R500 million, it said in a […]
The impact of the fourth wave of Covid-19 on Momentum Metropolitan Holdings’ South African life insurance businesses eased during the nine months to the end of March. In a trading update, MMH said […]
The FSCA has fined Brite Advisors South Africa (Pty) Ltd and a former director of the group, Nigel James Green, a total of R12.5 million. The Authority said an investigation found that Brite, […]
If you think that a “business as usual” approach is all that is required in the future, you are in for a rude awakening. In a recent media release, Andrew Coutts, the head […]
The FSCA’s assumption that an FSP had not responded to one of its questions contributed to its decision to debar him. But a pack of documents the FSP sent the FSCA landed up […]
Claims paid out by Liberty under its flagship Lifestyle Protector policy shot up by 59.6% last year, to R10.12 billion, largely because of the cumulative effects of the Beta and Delta waves of […]
Old Mutual Insure (OMI) has received more than 2 200 claims related to the floods in KwaZulu-Natal in April. In a trading update published on 26 May, Old Mutual said reinsurance agreements would reduce […]
South African multi-asset portfolios found favour with investors in the 12 months to the end of the first quarter of this year, according to the Association for Savings and Investment South Africa (Asisa). […]
The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has identified the potential of an unfavourable outcome of the Financial Action Task Force’s Mutual Evaluation of South Africa as a threat to the stability of the […]
The Financial Services Tribunal (FST) has reiterated that a retirement fund cannot withhold a benefit if only a criminal case has been instituted against a member. In fact, even if the member has […]
In light of the approaching winter months, combined with the recent lifting of the national disaster act, South Africans have anxiously been watching an increase in Covid infections. The Conversation Africa spoke to […]
Momentum Metropolitan Holdings (MMH) and Sanlam are the only major life insurers in South Africa to have grown the value of their new business relative to pre-Covid levels, according to PwC. PwC based […]
As we reported last week, National Treasury has revised some of the levies that FSPs will have to pay to the FSCA in terms of the Financial Sector and Deposit Insurance Levies Bill. […]
This link will open the complaints data from the Ombudsman for Short-term Insurance’s 2021 annual report. The insurers are sorted by number of complaints per thousand claims (column 5). As the Osti points […]
The Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) says it will be taking action against Insight Actuaries & Consultants joint-chief executive Christoff Raath following his comments about low-cost benefit options (LCBOs) on 19 May. The […]
The failure by the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) to review the prescribed minimum benefits (PMBs) regularly is making private healthcare unaffordable for millions of people, according to the Board of Healthcare Funders […]
