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.
Major shift in climate risk management
A major shift is underway as the world’s leaders put investment in risk transfer ahead of emergency response to disasters.
In a new report, the Dev [...]
New kind of insurance force emerging across Africa
The African insurance market has been shaken up by the Covid-19 pandemic, with firms across the continent re-assessing their priorities, but it has no [...]
M-TIBA and Britam sign deal on health insurance
M-TIBA and Britam have agreed a new partnership to develop digital products to increase health insurance market penetration in Kenya.
The partnersh [...]
Governance key to disaster preparedness
This year’s International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction was all about governance, according to the UN.
It said: “You can measure good disaster ri [...]
VIDEO: How to manage customers and win more business
In this difficult period, African reinsurers recently discussed ways to manage customer demands and help customers through the Covid-19 pandemic a [...]
Insurers seeing value in digitalisation
While about 5% of African insurance premium has been generated digitally, that number could rise as high as 50% if insurers invest in technology, acco [...]
VIDEO: Insurers and the media must work together to drive insurance penetration into new segments
Zimbabwean insurance regulator Grace Muradzikwa warns the industry that it must do more to promote the good things that the insurance in [...]
Mentoring – one of the keys to success
So many of us have benefited from a mentor in our early days at work, and giving back later in our careers can be incredibly rewarding. Here, James N [...]
UK judgment on BI set to cause global ramifications
Insurers and courts across the world, including those in South Africa in particular, have been watching for the UK court ruling on business interrupti [...]
VIDEO: Insurers reacting fast as Covid-19 hits insurance sales hard
Some 64% of insurers have reported the value of premiums sold since the Covid-19 outbreak has plummeted, while 67% said they have seen declines in [...]