Author: Joan Kitanga
Food security becomes key insurance concern
Food security is fast becoming a key insurance concern, as populations struggle under the combined threat of Covid-19 and continuing severe weather ac [...]
New appointment to drive Agritask proposition in Africa
Precision agronomics company Agritask has appointed Daniel Stander, a pioneer in decision science and resilience finance, as senior adviser to its lea [...]
Warning for insurers as 62% of Kenyans looking to cut the price of their insurance
In what is a clear warning sign for insurers, a new survey has revealed that 62% of Kenyans are looking for better deals on their insurance premium as [...]
Is this the new normal?
When the South African government first announced a national lockdown back in March, countless businesses were left scrambling to make working from ho [...]
Santam to make urgent relief payments on CBI policies
Business interruption (BI) policies have borne the brunt of policyholder criticism throughout the Covid-19 pandemic across Africa. Policyholders have [...]
Climate change becoming a reality, warns Munich Re
While insurers across Africa might be taking heart from the latest natural catastrophe figures for the first half of this year, the message is that cl [...]
Report: Covid-19 presents an opportunity for insurers
The ability for insurers across Africa to operate has been severely hampered by Covid-19, as it had previously required face-to-face engagement much o [...]
AfDB report: Covid-19 could cause -2% drop in west Africa’s economy
Insurers across the continent have been watching the wider economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, fearing it might result in fewer insureds, or at [...]
Sustainability proven to improve bottom line, finds new report
Few concepts have attracted as much attention among business leaders as resilience this year – especially in the supply chain, where 75% of US compani [...]
VIDEO: Insurers have unique opportunities through Covid-19
It will be up to insurers themselves and their resilience as to whether they come out of the Covid-19 crisis in better shape or not. In a roundtab [...]