Author: Liz Booth
Liz Booth has more than 30 years’ experience as a journalist and editor, working on a mix of consumer and business titles but, for the past decade, has concentrated on the insurance and risk sector. Having grown up in west Africa and then lived in South Africa, she has a lifelong commitment to the continent and a passionate interest in its future success.
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Reinsurance capacity shortage could fuel price hikes, warn major reinsurers
Extreme inflation, rising interest rates and asset slumps currently pose challenges for the entire insurance industry alongside burdens from the war i [...]
African opportunities abound – if insurers step up to support development
Africa has immense opportunities to deliver on its potential of becoming the world’s food basket and can also provide some of the energy crisis soluti [...]
VIDEO: OESAI: a golden opportunity to meet, exchange views and share experience
Patty Karuaihe-Martin, chair of the Organisation of Southern and Eastern African Insurers (OESAI) and managing director of Namib Re, and Jean Alain Fr [...]
The numbers show the scale of Africa’s challenges
Looking at the numbers for the African insurance market, there is real potential for insurers to grow their business successfully.
That was the ver [...]
Time for insurers to work together with government to maximise potential
Insurers attending the Organisation of Eastern and Southern African Insurers annual conference in Zanzibar have been urged to work proactively with go [...]
African insurance market must work together to deliver on continent’s potential, CEOs agree
A lack of both financial and technical capacity continues to hinder the development of Africa’s insurance markets and threatens to derail the continen [...]
Pools might provide answers to more sustainable solutions
Working together to grow capacity maybe the only way that the African insurance market can take control of its own destiny and grow to its potential, [...]
African insurance markets need more actuaries to cope with IFRS17
With new rules under IFRS17 looming, the need for actuarial services is an acute problem for insurers across Africa.
The lack of practising and ful [...]
What do consumers really think of insurance?
Changing the perception of consumers towards insurance is a slow but steady process, warn a group of journalists.
All winners of the 2022 Pan-Afric [...]