Tag: Life insurance
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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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Increase your cover with future insurability
Future insurability benefits mean that when you want to increase your life cover after a major life event such as the birth of a child, a marriage or divorce, you may be entitled to do so without undergoing a new under writing process. Make sure you understand how your policy works, as there are differences between…
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How BrightRock Is Disrupting The Insurance Industry With These 2 Pivotal Strategies
By Monique Verduyn Developments in technology, and clear communication are positioning BrightRock to disrupt their industry and transform the consumer experience. BrightRock was started around a dining room table in 2011 by four people with years of industry experience and — importantly — a diverse set of complementary skills. They wanted to make changes to an…
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Why do you need critical illness cover?
By Schalk Malan While medical and, possibly, gap cover can make provision for medical expenses, these insurance products are very unlikely to cover any gaps when it comes to the additional expenses like lifestyle changes that result from life-altering illnesses or injuries. For example, for a condition like paraplegia, a critical illness policy will help…
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BrightRock announces entry into new risk market
Introducing more needs-matched change! May 2018, Johannesburg – Needs-matched life insurance player BrightRock is ready to bring further change to the life insurance industry with the introduction of a group risk product that can provide schemes with up to 40% more cover for the same premium. BrightRock has become known as a disrupter in the…
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Are we really connecting with Millennials?
By Suzanne Stevens, Executive Director for Marketing at BrightRock A lot has been said and written about the impact of the Millennial generation on business. Evidently, we are seeing this impact on a daily basis, with the increasing popularity of app- and geolocation-driven services, the rise of Blockchain technology and, of course, the surge of…
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How a Great, Big Curveball of Change Put Our Wedding Vows to the test
When Elton explained this to our son, who was 4 at the time, he listened and summarised it as “so Daddy, your lungs don’t feel like being lungs anymore?” It was so on point, my husband uses it as his standard intro when people ask him about his condition.
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An expert’s guide to chore chicken
It starts off with the small stuff – ignore that dirty cup in the sink until your partner washes up – but it escalates to billowing laundry baskets, drawers of unopened mail and terribly, terribly dodgy stuff at the back of the fridge.
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Jack Parow: From fish packer to Afrikaans rapper
What do you do when an employee cites “to become an Afrikaans rapper” as the reason for his resignation? You tell him he’s crazy, right?
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It’s a 50-freaking-year commitment, people!
Never mind the stuff life throws at when you choose to tie the knot. What about the stuff you wind up throwing at each other? Yes, you take on a lot when you promise to have and to hold. But as long as you have and hold each other, you can handle whatever marriage has…