Tag: Editor's Pick
Subdued recovery predicted for Africa in 2021
Investors, risk analysts and African governments have predicted a subdued recovery across Africa in 2021, with the possibility of countries not return [...]
VIDEO: Looking ahead to 2021
Lesley Ndlovu, chief executive officer of African Risk Capacity, looks ahead to 2021 and moving on in a post-pandemic world. He discusses the chal [...]
Courts taking no-nonsense approach to insurers’ social responsibilities
The High Court of South Africa: Western Cape Division has joined a long list of jurisdictions to remind insurers that they must live up to the environ [...]
Zep-Re invests in ACRE Africa to build bigger insurance pool for African agriculture
Making sure smallholder farmers in Africa get the right insurance solutions lies behind Zep-Re’s decision to buy a 56% stake in ACRE Africa, which dev [...]
Insurers must address climate change as global businesses wake up to the risks
Global businesses are facing an era of unprecedented disruption and transformation as a direct result of climate change.
The financial cost of clim [...]
Africa facing first insurance decline this century?
Thanks to market conditions exacerbated by 2020, market penetration in Africa could actually decrease for the first time in two decades, according to [...]
VIDEO: Taking ESG to another level: Naked Insurance gives back
Gareth Stokes asks Alex Thomson, co-founder of South African insurer Naked Insurance, how its business model enables the company to distribute sur [...]
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 [...]
ESG underwriting – it’s an African conversation
Despite a difficult year, Africa’s financial services sector is making strides in getting its own environment, social governance (ESG) framework – one [...]