South African investors committed R51 billion to collective investment schemes in the first quarter of 2026 despite heightened market volatility.
The Russia-Ukraine conflict has set in motion a domino effect that continues to have widespread consequences for several sectors, including the local insurance industry. All insurers have war clause exclusions for acts of […]
Only 259 of the new complaints registered by the Ombudsman for Short-term Insurance (Osti) last year were related to Covid-19. But settlements in Covid-related business interruption (BI) complaints accounted for 49.5% of the […]
The Ombudsman for Short-term Insurance (Osti) has once again flagged the increase in the number of complaints from consumers whose claims are rejected because insurers allege the driver failed to exercise reasonable precaution […]
The FSCA has given motor dealers and financial institutions operating in the vehicle asset finance (VAF) space until the end of June to complete a questionnaire about dealer introductory commissions (DIC). In a […]
The 10 days of unrest in KwaZulu-Natal and parts of Gauteng in July last year wiped out the South African Special Risk Insurance Association’s cumulative retained earnings of more than R8 billion, incoming […]
The long-awaited conduct standard “Requirements relating to third-party cell-captive insurance business”, together with the Statement of Need and Intended Operation and the Consultation Report, was tabled in the National Assembly and the National […]
Robert Vivian, professor of finance and insurance in the School of Business Sciences at Wits University and a member of the Free Market Foundation’s Rule of Law Board of Advisors, holds nothing back […]
National Treasury has proposed lowering some of the levies that FSPs will pay to the FSCA in terms of the Financial Sector and Deposit Insurance Levies Bill, to reduce the impact on small […]
The Pretoria High Court has asked the Constitutional Court to confirm an order that will have significant implications for how assets are redistributed when couples who are married out of community get divorced. […]
First National Bank (FNB) was the only bank among the country’s “big five” banks that recorded a decrease in the number of cases opened against it by the Ombudsman for Banking Services (OBS) […]
Discovery chief executive Adrian Gore has told Business Day that the proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) system is “a moral imperative” for the country that he supports fully, although he said it would […]
The Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF), a representative association for medical schemes, has applied for an exemption from provisions of the Competition Act so that it can publish a scale of benefits after […]
10X Investments has agreed to a 100% cash purchase of CoreShares, creating a full-service South African indexing investment specialist with more than R31 billion in assets under management. The deal is subject to […]
Life insurers’ fraud investigations have turned up more evidence of deathly get-rich schemes in which syndicates take out funeral insurance on victims they subsequently kill in order to submit a claim. Syndicates, particularly […]
The finalisation of a deceased estate is a time-consuming and frustrating process for South Africans. There is additional complexity and exasperation when one of the heirs is an expatriate. When you live outside […]
Parliament’s Standing Committee on Finance has tasked National Treasury with producing a report on how the Financial Sector and Deposit Insurance Levies Bill will impact consumers and small entities. Read: FSPs face paying […]
Life insurers detected 4 287 fraudulent and dishonest claims worth R787.6 million across all lines of risk business in 2021. This is a 34.5% increase in the number of such claims from 2020, […]
