How foreign investors and rating agencies view the outcome of the general election will affect the direction of bond yields and equity prices.
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Consumers are justifiably concerned about the impact of Eskom’s demand for a 20% tariff increase, but there’s another factor that could contribute to rising inflation this year: significantly higher Sasria rates on commercial […]
Covid-19 has overtaken cancer, heart and artery disease as the primary cause of death among Discovery Life clients, according to the insurer’s claims data for 2020. Furthermore, deaths due to Covid-19 in the […]
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the South African Short-Term Insurance market was on a strong growth trajectory, increasing by a solid 4.3% in insurance premium volumes, between 2018 and 2019. However, similar to the […]
2020 has been a tough year and many people are looking for ways to decrease their expenses. Many have considered it, and some have already cancelled their car insurance to ease the financial […]
Last week we commented on a request for public response to a “Technical Report on the Consumer Credit Insurance Market in South Africa”. One of the proposals concerns regulating the pricing of CCI. […]
The Long-term Ombud recently published two examples of excessive charges on endowment policies which confirmed the view that a revision of product provider costs is possibly a bigger problem than advisor fees. This […]
