COVER Magazine

It starts and ends with relationships _ Newly appointed Group CEO for Momentum Metropolitan, Jeanette Marais, talks about her career, MMI and the relationships that holds our industry together

Izak Smit the Group Chief Executive of PPS

Technology - Journey to Efficiency

Unpacking the fundamentals of insurance in relation to technologyEpisode 1 in a series of five conversations between Tony and Tavio Roxo, CEO of OWLS™ Software discussing the Insurance digitisation journey.
 
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Sanlam Corporate CEO, Kanyisa Mkhize provides some insight into the employee benefits landscape and the opportunities for our industry.

Darren Isaacs - CEO and Founder of Makosi expands on the changing advisory space and how Fintech includes so much more than what we think.

The future of the broker in light of current socio-political and economic challenges

Dan Hugo, CEO, PSG Distribution shares his thoughts on the future of the broker in light of current socio-political and economic challenges we face.

Buy versus Build, the question always pops up when tech development is discussed. How do you make that decision?

Leo Holesgrove, Guidewire's Southern Africa representative shares his approach to find the best approach.

Global Investments Themes and Opportunities

Tony chats to Fabiana Fedeli · Chief Investment Officer, Equities and Multi Asset at M&G Investments 

Richard Carter, Head of Assurance at Allan Grey

The two-pot retirement system will be compulsory for all retirement funds to split contributions received between two notional portions – one-third will be allocated to a “savings portion” that will allow early access to funds, while the remaining two-thirds will be allocated to a “retirement portion”. At retirement, whatever is left in the savings portion will be available as a cash lump sum. The retirement portion will have to be used to purchase an annuity.
However, as the saying goes, "the devil is in the detail" and there is the catch, not all the details are available yet. We caught up with Richard Carter, head of assurance at Allan Gray to find out, in terms of detail, what he thinks are important for us to get clarity on.

Dane Richards, CEO of JMR Software

Techfest & Client communication 
COVER’s Editor-in-chief, Tony van Niekerk has a conversation with Dane Richards, JMR CEO.  
Tony & Dane talk TechFest, and client communication as a competitive advantage. They discuss technology trends that are garnering interest and gaining traction: from the noticeable drive towards personalisation as a differentiator through to streamlining processes with AI and automation, as well as cloud migration. 
Dane astutely points out that accurately defining use cases for emerging tech is essential and he shares why JMR chose to get involved in TechFest 2023,  with industry colleague engagement and contributing to the industry with knowledge sharing cited as two reasons.  
Register for free for TechFest 2023 here. 
If you would like to find out more about JMR, visit their website by clicking here.