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.
Africa Re profit drops just 5.4% in Covid-19 impacted quarter
African Reinsurance Corporation (Africa Re) posted a premium income of US$583.68 million at the end of the third quarter of 2020, a decline of 5.41%. [...]
Zep Re to buy 56% in ACRE Africa
African reinsurer Zep-Re (PTA Reinsurance Company) has agreed with the shareholders to acquire a controlling 56% stake in ACRE Africa.
ACRE Africa [...]
New opportunity to check out future customers
Knowing your customers – and them knowing you – is a key component of building trust and resilience in commercial deals across Africa. But access to i [...]
Employee errors generating more cyber claims
External attacks on companies result in the most expensive cyber insurance losses but it is employee mistakes and technical problems that are the most [...]
How to change your strategy in a post-Covid world
Insurance expert James Norman discusses how to change strategy, particularly in the middle of a pandemic and global economic crisis.
A challenge fo [...]
VIDEO: Continental Re’s Pan African Re/Insurance Journalism Awards launched
Welcome to Continental Re's Pan African Re/Insurance Journalism Awards, celebrating the value of good quality journalism in a year where reliable [...]
New style of leadership required post-pandemic
A new style of leadership will have to emerge post-pandemic if business are to build resilience and survive in the changing environment.
Speaking a [...]
South Africa’s insurers have to adapt to survive
The Covid-19 pandemic and its resulting economic crisis are hitting the insurance industry in South Africa hard.
Now, in a new report on the state [...]
European investors to cease new coal and fuel oil financing, but plan to boost African investment
European Development Finance Institutions (EDFI) are to immediately cease new coal and fuel oil financing and will limit other fossil fuel financing, [...]
Smart cities offer new opportunities for insurers
A new report, Cities at risk – Building a resilient future for the world’s urban centres, published by Lloyd’s, Urban Foresight and Newcastle Universi [...]