INSETA QUALIFICATION

01 Oct 2019

SA’s first occupational qualification for insurance underwriters

By Janice Roberts

The first group of formally recognised underwriters in South Africa officially graduates on the 9th October 2019. A total of 21 candidates will graduate with an ‘Occupational Certificate: Insurance Agent: Insurance Underwriter NQF Level 5 (91784). This follows the introduction of the first ever formal underwriter occupational qualification by the Insurance Sector Education and Training...

06 Jun 2019

Training at forefront as AI fails to fill underwriting needs

By Janice Roberts

In the 1980s, when first underwriting computer programs were developed, the insurance industry saw this as the end of the need to train underwriters. Decades on, the industry and the Insurance Sector Education and Training Authority (INSETA) have recognised that the ‘human touch’ is still very much needed in the position of underwriter, despite great...