ZB Life Assurance launches enhanced cash funeral plan 

ZB Life Assurance launches enhanced cash funeral plan 

ZB Life Assurance, a subsidiary of ZB Financial Holdings, has launched an enhanced ZB Cash Funeral Plan to provide post-burial benefits to the policyholder, in addition to the cash benefits that assist with the financing of funeral and burial costs.

The enhanced product will help bereaved families to cope with post-burial expenses that are often

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Insurers embrace disruption with reskilling of talent

Insurers embrace disruption with reskilling of talent

HARARE, Over the past 16 months, the ways people work and live have been fundamentally impacted. The expectations are that even following the COVID-19 pandemic, organisations across industry sectors can no longer revert to their traditional approaches. Insurers have already taken this to heart and have redoubled efforts to modernise and digitalise

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ICZ makes timely Covid-19 donations

ICZ makes timely Covid-19 donations

Staff Writer

HARARE, The Insurance Council of Zimbabwe (ICZ) donated 40,000 litres of diesel to the Civil Protection Unit which will be used through the Ministry of Health and Child Care and 270 grocery hampers worth $925,000.

The fuel donation was presented to President Emmerson Mnangagwa by the Chairman of ICZ, Patrick Kusikwenyu.

Kusikwenyu said that the third

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Cassava Smartech Insurtech business grows

Cassava Smartech Insurtech business grows

Staff Reporter

HARARE, Cassava Smartech’s Insurtech business continues to grow in the positive territory buoyed by writing new short term and life insurance policies as it grows the customer base for all insurance products.

“New products and alternative payment channels were introduced leading to a doubling of our short-term insurance customers,” the

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Arrival of ETFs – Are Pension Funds in Luck?

Arrival of ETFs – Are Pension Funds in Luck?

In recent years active investment management has come under more scrutiny than ever before. The reason is clear – of late, most active managers, particularly those focused on large-cap stocks, have struggled to beat their benchmarks.

Picking stocks is hard, picking other people to pick stocks for you is even harder – and this is the daily challenge

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Reimagining insurance from the outside in

Reimagining insurance from the outside in

HARARE, In the wake of COVID-19, insurance customers are looking for more than most insurers typically offer. They are looking for protection from all forms of controllable adversity.

To meet these new customer demands, insurers need to move from traditional risk indemnification models to proactive risk mitigation and management. This means changes in both

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Old Mutual Life Assurance invests into solar project

Staff Reporter

HARARE, OLD Mutual Life Assurance Company has applied for a license from ZERA to construct a modest 648kW solar photovoltaic power plant at its headquarters in Harare.

The company has since applied for a licence from the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority allowing it to sell the surplus in terms of electricity licensing regulations

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Nyaradzo CEO and Founder…Tracks roots

Nyaradzo CEO and Founder…Tracks roots

By Phillip Mataranyika CEO Nyaradzo

By the time I left Old Mutual, on the 28th of February 2001 to begin a new chapter in my life as CEO of a fledgling company, Nyaradzo, I was the most successful Old Mutual sales agent and financial advisor of all time. I had won all the awards there were to win, travelled many parts of the country and some of the countries

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