As South African women embrace their expanding roles as business owners and breadwinners, it is important for insurance companies to adjust their business practices to adapt to their specific needs, suggests Petunia Makgoro Executive Head: Partnerships for Hollard Life Solutions.

The Naked Difference is all about changing insurance to break the cycle of distrust between insurers and their clients and making an impact across SA.

Karen Rimmer: Head of Distribution at PSG Insure advises on how SA insurance consumers can protect their assets, specifically their vehicles and properties (both commercial and residential) in a high-crime environment.

Belinda Hawkins has recently re-joined Infiniti Insurance as the New Business Development Manager. Belinda has over 25 years of experience developing and maintaining good working relationships with insurance brokers and direct clients in the short-term insurance industry.

Car and home insurer, Momentum Insure, is bucking the trend with their newly launched cashback programme - Safety Returns - that rewards clients who take steps to ensure their safety and that of their loved ones.

The adoption of International Financial Reporting Standard 17 (IFRS 17) requires Islamic insurers to update their internal processes and IT systems, resulting in additional costs, time constraints, and other operational challenges, which will likely strain many smaller, under-resourced players.