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24 Apr 2018

PSG Wealth’s political education campaign a moveable feast

Not every marketing campaign is aimed at promoting a new product or service.  And not every audience can be simply categorised as ‘internal’ or ‘external’, particularly in the case of PSG Wealth, its clients and their over 750 independent financial advisers.
24 Apr 2018

Making sense of shifts and swings

By Dave Mohr (Chief Investment Strategist) & Izak Odendaal (Investment Strategist), Old Mutual Multi-Managers Financial market activity is often dominated by particular themes or narratives. Sometimes these storylines are created after the fact to explain random market movements, but they are often based in reality. Towards the end of 2017, the dominant theme was ‘synchronised...
24 Apr 2018

Value added services vital for driving SA insurance industry forward

South Africa’s value added services market is currently a leader in terms of product innovation. The rapid pace at which technology is evolving, is having a significant effect on how providers of assistance services are taking on the South African market.
24 Apr 2018

Medical malpractice litigation undermining SA’s health system

In what South African Health Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, has described as an ‘explosion’, medical malpractice litigation claims in the country have increased dramatically over the past few years, with warnings that the compassion-based practice of medicine is being replaced by defensive medicine and mistrust.
24 Apr 2018

Dishonest policyholders on the rise

When you take out a short-term insurance policy, the responsibility lies with you to provide the insurer with all the necessary information so that it can correctly underwrite (assess and price) your risk. 
23 Apr 2018

Guardrisk Group ratings confirmed

International rating agency, Moody’s Investor Service, recently confirmed the ratings assigned to three companies in the Guardrisk Group, which is a subsidiary of JSE-listed MMI Holdings.
23 Apr 2018

'Lack of financial knowledge is a threat to lasting change for students'

The introduction of free tertiary education has been hailed by many as an important step towards South Africa’s overall economic transformation. But low levels of financial literacy amongst students could represent a serious barrier towards achieving lasting change.
23 Apr 2018

Health insurance disappears for South Africans: FMF

By the Free Market Foundation The Free Market Foundation (FMF) is concerned that too few people are aware of and/or understand the implications of the demarcation regulations in the healthcare insurance market that came into effect from 1 April 2017 and which have a dramatic effect on how consumers pay for healthcare and the type...
23 Apr 2018

Ashburton Investments partners with Fidelity International to enhance offshore multi asset range

Ashburton Investments, the asset management arm of the FirstRand Group, has entered into a strategic partnership with Fidelity International, a global asset manager with US$324bn assets under management. 
21 Apr 2018

Old Mutual Limited expected to list on the JSE  on 26 June 2018

Old Mutual Limited has made public its pre-listing statement, an important step towards its launch as an independently listed, leading financial services group.  It is expected that listing will take place on 26 June 2018 following receipt of the requisite approvals, including approval by the Old Mutual plc shareholders. Peter Moyo, OML CEO says, “We...

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