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19 Mar 2020

FMI launches new webinar series for advisers

Life insurer FMI, a Division of Bidvest Life Ltd, this week launches FMI TalkTime, a new webinar series to help independent financial advisers stay in touch with the latest trends, product developments, views and challenges in the industry.
19 Mar 2020

Insurance claims and COVID-19

If you haven’t already dusted off the business interruption, liability and event cancellation policies you have underwritten, or placed for an insured, and checked for coronavirus coverage, now is the time to do so.
19 Mar 2020

COVID-19: What policymakers can and can’t do

Pandemics like COVID-19 invoke behavioural responses amongst economic agents that cannot be changed by government stimulus packages. But, there is still a lot macroeconomic policymakers can do.

19 Mar 2020

BlackRock releases 2020 Stewardship Priorities for engaging with public companies

BlackRock, Inc. has released its Engagement Priorities for 2020 (the “Priorities”), outlining its roadmap for investment stewardship this year. The Priorities also further BlackRock’s commitment in January to make sustainability its new standard for investing.
18 Mar 2020

SARB MPC: Bolder rate cut expected

Coordinated global central bank action in the past week has opened the door to a bolder cut from the South African central bank on 19 March, we think.

18 Mar 2020

Don’t get out of the market when temperatures run high

Global markets are reeling from the largest declines in the prices of “risky” assets since the global financial crash of 2008. With trillions of rand in value being wiped off various listed equity valuations daily, pension funds and individual retail investors would naturally be worried about just how much money they could lose.

18 Mar 2020

UK’s economic response to Covid-19 might need a ‘rethink’

The UK government’s economic strategy to combat the impact of Covid-19 might need a rethink.
18 Mar 2020

Ashburton Investments’ views on the markets amid COVID-19 concerns

Firstly, it is worth noting that the recent market events have been unprecedented and quite extreme, even for the most experienced investment teams across the globe.

18 Mar 2020

The global cognitive distortion of panic and Covid-19

Where did all the toilet paper go? Snapshots of empty store shelves, low levels of storable staples like rice and noodles and city-states raising emergency levels has served to escalate panic-buying and even shop-raiding in some parts of the world.

18 Mar 2020

How to avoid late joiner penalties on your medical scheme

With the cost of purchasing medical scheme cover being unaffordable for many South Africans, many people only feel the need to buy medical scheme cover when they experience ill health, or reach an older age and need the cover, but delaying this grudge purchase can lead to additional expense.

Visit the official COVID-19 government website to stay informed: sacoronavirus.co.za