The Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) has published Conduct Standard 2 of 2025 (the 2025 Standard), setting out reformed conditions for pension fund benefit administrators under section 13B (1 ...

A judgment handed down by the Constitutional Court earlier today (8 August 2025) revisits the precedent set by the Supreme Court of Appeal in Guarnieri v Fundsatwork Umbrella Pension Fund (Guarnieri), ...

Current Poll Financial and risk advice practices have little choice but to upgrade their operating methodologies and systems to accommodate today’s tech-savvy consumers. What is your practice’s status ...

Life insurance is often misunderstood, seen as a middle-class product to replace income after death. But for the wealthy, life cover isn’t about death. It’s about design ...

Once enacted, the much-anticipated Conduct of Financial Institutions Bill (COFI) will introduce a significant shift in the legislative and regulatory landscape of South Africa’s financial services ...

In a move poised to shake up the South African mass-market life insurance landscape, the Hollard Group has made a significant strategic investment in SA-based insurtech, Simply Financial Services. The ...

Data from Standard Bank shows a substantial increase in the adoption of and value invested in Tax-Free Savings Accounts (TFSAs) over the past decade. Launched by the South African Treasury in March ...

The domestic non-life insurance industry is back on the front foot after an impressive 50% rise in aggregate net profits for the 2023 year. This impressive result emerged from a consolidated view of ...

South African car owners face an increasingly high risk of vehicle theft or hijacking, and many insurers now insist that certain vehicles have tracking devices installed before granting cover. But ...

Over the years South African weather patterns have increased in severity and weather-related damages have cost, and continue to cost, the insurance industry billions in losses as insurance claims pour ...

In a victory for long suffering members of the Private Security Sector Provident Fund, the Gauteng High Court dismissed four applications by a security company for the determinations issued by the ...

As the mining industry attends the 2025 Mining Indaba, mine rehabilitation remains under the spotlight as a critical and long-term challenge. Despite the stringent regulations governing environmental ...