PLATINUM SPONSOR
SA3 has established themselves as one of the leading ACTUARIAL RECRUITMENT firms in South Africa. They have built RELATIONSHIPS of TRUST with all the major employers in South Africa and have been the recruiter of choice for many satisfied candidates. They believe their HONEST APPROACH and genuinely wanting to have a positive impact on the lives of others have set them apart from their competitors.
The fact that Wilhelm, Henda and Jurie are qualified actuaries themselves have often helped the process along and have proven to be beneficial to both the candidates and employers. They know the South African market inside out and have many established contacts throughout the industry. Whether you are looking to fill a strategic position or looking for a new challenge, they would love to help. They know that you will find their SERVICE excellent and the whole process to be QUICK, EFFICIENT, and PROFESSIONAL from start to finish.
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Website: www.sa3.co.za
SILVER SPONSOR
WHO WE ARE
Alexander Forbes is a market-leading provider of integrated retirement and investment solutions as well as holistic wealth management.
For 84 years our brand has been synonymous with financial expertise and innovation. We have built our premium brand through an in-depth understanding of the employee benefit and investment industry. Offering pioneering solutions has made us a trusted adviser and partner of choice.
Our people are dedicated to delivering outstanding employee benefit and investment solutions as well as administrative services for institutional clients while securing the financial well-being of individual clients. In March 2019 we announced a revised strategy that refocuses the business on providing integrated retirement solutions and holistic wealth management based on best advice for clients. This followed a review to ensure continued relevance in our core markets, assess growth opportunities and unlock the value of the company.
WHAT WE DO
We create value for our clients by ensuring they are at the centre of everything we do. We provide advice, products and solutions that meet the needs of our clients through our new operating model. We are the largest administrator of retirement funds, multi-manager and healthcare consultancy in South Africa.
Website: www.alexanderforbes.co.za
SILVER SPONSOR
An expert technical risk ability, combined with capital of the highest rating is a compelling combination for clients, making Gen Re a formidable and courageous partner who once in partnership does not have an exit strategy. We have proved our willingness to take large risks and meet large claims obligations, and to carry on meeting them long into the future. Gen Re’s ability to leverage our international network for complex technical and strategic input in a very short time span is proving significant to our clients in this epoch shifting world.
Website: www.genre.com
SILVER SPONSOR
RGA is the only dedicated life reinsurer in the South African market and supports individual and group life reinsurance, as well as a range of financial solutions. RGA entered the South African life reinsurance market in 1999. Today, RGA is a full-services reinsurer that can meet a wide range of life and health needs. More than 80 full-time employees in South Africa provide support across the entire business lifecycle. RGA’s reputation for quality service and client support is reflected in our industry recognition. Cedants ranked RGA #1 on NMG Consulting’s Business Capability Index (“BCI”) in South Africa for the ninth consecutive year in 2018. The achievement is unmatched globally.
Website: www.rgare.com
SILVER SPONSOR
RNA Analytics is a global actuarial and risk management solutions and consulting service provider, providing insurers with simple and efficient ways to meet their complex needs by using innovative software and consulting. We enable businesses to respond to external regulatory pressures and internal analytical demands.
RNA Analytics is a company formed around a product team that has been working together for over 20 years. RNA Analytics offers insurance firms a comprehensive actuarial modeling solution that provides essential risk and regulatory metrics to help meet the needs of an existing global client base. This solution supports the modeling of insurance portfolios across a spectrum of risk-based regulatory regimes such as Solvency II and IFRS 17. It helps meet the business needs of insurers for more realistic and complex modeling to enable critical risk-informed decision support for growth.
At the heart of the solutions we offer the R³S Software suite. The R³S software suite from RNA Analytics is a comprehensive actuarial and risk modeling solution used by our clients for Solvency II, Dynamic ALM, Market Consistent Embedded Value, Pricing, and IFRS 17. With 20 years of growth and leadership in designing and supporting solutions that are the market’s most comprehensive in its singular focus on enterprise risk, modeling and capital management, and which are built to answer both the most basic and also the most complex of challenges.
Website: www.rnaanalytics.com
SILVER SPONSOR
Swiss Re was established in May 2018 as a composite entity to service both Life & Health as well as Property & Casualty business. It has a local A- S&P rating. Under the leadership of Thys Nieuwoudt, Swiss Re Africa Ltd is based in Cape Town and employs around 100 staff. Swiss Re provides strong service into the important insurance hub in Johannesburg as well as Southern African markets. The service offering combines Swiss Re’s full Transactional and Solutions capabilities with the a true local presence.
Website: www.swissre.com
MINDFUL PARTNER
Liberty is an established and growing Pan-African financial services group, with a presence in 24 countries. The organisation offers an extensive, market-leading range of products and services to help retail and corporate customers build and protect their wealth and lifestyle. These include life and health related insurance, financial support for retirement; and investment management, provided through its sub-brand STANLIB. Liberty is part of the Standard Bank Group, which has a 53.6% stake, and has been operational for nearly 60 years. Liberty Holdings is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchanges as well as the Nairobi Stock Exchange in Kenya.
Website: www.liberty.co.za
REFRESHMENT BREAK PARTNER
The Absa Life Actuarial team has just over 50 people, with about a quarter being qualified actuaries and the remainder associate actuaries and students. The team covers the full end-to-end actuarial services for insurance entities in South Africa, Kenya, Botswana, Zambia and Mozambique. The Life business’s main focus is bancassurance, but they also have standalone products. The product range includes: Credit Life, Funeral Cover, limited products, fully and digitally underwritten products and Group Risk.
The team covers activities that include:
• Developing product strategies and delivering product development and pricing;
• End-to-end reinsurance activities and underwriting oversight;
• Monitoring, reporting and managing product profitability;
• Valuation, EV and capital reporting;
• Methodology, assumption and model development;
• Setting and monitoring risk appetites and producing the ORSA;
• Asset liability management, setting investment mandates and monitoring investment performance; and
• Actuarial support to the IFRS17 project.
Absa has non-Life insurance operations in South Africa, Kenya and Mozambique. A large actuarial team is responsible for this and their responsibilities range across pricing, reserving, capital modelling and data science.
Within our team, we employ a diverse range of people, from enterprise risk specialists to expert data scientists. There is a strong focus on automation and building technological solutions to improve our analytics. The team aims to improve customer experience and business performance through data- driven decision-making.
We have successfully implemented several sales optimisation algorithms and recently, the team successfully launched Activate – a digital telematics insurance offering.
Transformation and developing and growing our talent is very high on our agenda. Our team transformation statistics (SA African) are around twice as high as the ASSA average and our culture is one of caring and feeling part of a family where standards are high, but where we also like to have fun!
We’re inspired by our country of doers, who turn every challenge into an opportunity. At Absa, we call this Africanacity – the distinctly African ability to always find a way to get things done.
Website: www.absa.co.za
REFRESHMENT BREAK PARTNER
Established in 1980, the Hollard Insurance Group provides short-term and life insurance as well as investment products to a diverse customer base including individual consumers and commercial entities. It ranks among a growing number of companies advocating an inclusive growth model, measuring social dividends alongside shareholder returns. Hollard’s organisational Purpose is to enable more people to create and secure a Better Future.
Hollard South Africa and Hollard International wrote a combined premium income in excess of R25-billion in the year to June 2019 across short-term and life insurance operations in 10 countries, including South Africa, Botswana, Ghana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and the Philippines.
Since inception, partnership has been at the heart of Hollard’s business model, with each partnership demonstrating a belief that there is always a better way and the idea of “win-win-win”, whereby Hollard, the partner and the consumer all win through a spirit of collaboration and co-creation.
Website: www.hollard.co.za
REFRESHMENT BREAK PARTNER AND EXHIBITOR
Old Mutual is in the business of helping people and companies do great things with their money. Established in Cape Town in 1845, we were South Africa’s first mutual life assurance society. Our purpose is to help our customers thrive by enabling them to achieve their lifetime financial goals, while investing their funds in ways that will create a positive future for them, their families, their communities and broader society. In this way, we significantly contribute to improving the lives of our customers and their communities while ensuring a sustainable future for our business. We employ over 30 000 people and operate in 14 countries across two regions: Africa (South Africa, Botswana, eSwatini, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe) and Asia (China).
Website: www.oldmutual.co.za
EXHIBITOR
MBE Consulting transforms actuarial performance in the life insurance and related industries.
We create measurable added value for our clients by combining our expertise in actuarial best practice, Lean process design and actuarial technologies.
We are a specialist actuarial consultancy with a reputation for insight and innovation in the life insurance and financial services sectors. We deliver long-lasting, individually tailored transformation programmes and actuarial technologies to improve your risk management, remove waste and streamline processes. This releases your valuable resources to focus on delivering real value to internal and external customers.
Established in 2008, our business has grown almost entirely through personal recommendations, reflecting our core objective that every MBE client will become a passionate advocate for our services.
Website: www.MBEConsulting.co.za
EXHIBITOR
SC Spheres is an electronic platform designed to harness the power of technology to assist organisations with the shift to working from home and operating in virtual teams. SC Spheres supports multi-way chat and file sharing so confidential material can be moved off email onto a platform that supports full encryption. The platform has been designed around the needs of governance boards and offers a one-stop solution for meeting agendas, round-robin decision making, document archives, board member inductions, electronic document signing and much more. The generic functionality allows the platform to be set up for specialised functions that range from Virtual Data Rooms to adjudications on medical treatments.
The twin challenges of COVID-19 and the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act have ushered in a new way of working. SC Spheres has established itself as the platform to support organisations through this transformation while at the same time building a greener, more flexible and efficient way of doing business.
Website: www.scspheres.com
EXHIBITOR
Software Alliance Limited (“SAL”) is a UK-based specialist software house, formed in 2006 to develop financial modelling software and services for the insurance industry.
Our innovative solutions offer unsurpassed levels of simplicity, transparency, and productivity. Our industry experience and understanding of specific customer needs, coupled with our investments in leading-edge technology, have made us market leaders, ready to provide the next generation of modelling capability to our customers.
Over the last decade our primary product offering, Mo.net, has evolved significantly and is now relied upon by clients around the globe to provide mission-critical financial modelling, analysis and decision support.
Website: www.softwarealliance.net
EXHIBITOR
TAI is an all-in-one life reinsurance software solution for both life insurers and reinsurers globally. TAI offers a software suite that enables companies to administer, report, and analyse their life reinsurance programmes. TAI enables companies to increase administrative efficiencies whilst decreasing financial and operational risk through process automation, automated treaty compliance and accurate reinsurance reporting compliance. Visit www.taire.com to discover more ways to optimise your reinsurance operations with TAI.
Website: www.taire.com