Tag: Financial Mail
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BrightRock: from zero to R2.1bn in premiums
It’s taken 10 years, but the BrightRock team has turned its plan to shake up the life insurance industry into action. Today, the company is the third-largest insurer in new business in SA.
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BACKSTORY: BrightRock CEO Schalk Malan
Financial Mail questioned CEO at BrightRock Schalk Malan on his top tip for doing a deal, hardest life lesson and the one thing he’d fix in SA.
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BrightRock shows the way in innovation
BrightRock is no longer a small player: last year it had annual premium income of R1.6bn and new business of R433m At a time when insurtech businesses are cutting out the middleman, BrightRock, just seven years old, stands out as the poster child for the traditional intermediary-based model. Its total premium income was up 43%…
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Challenging the status quo in financial services
By Samantha du Chenne At the most recent Financial Mail AdForum event, held in association with Ornico, the financial services sector came under the spotlight. Typically a competitive industry, financial services has been affected by the constrained economy and by a consumer base that doesn’t believe that bigger is always the best. With an alarming deficit of…