Please find the November Turnberry Times Here .

Having just read the latest PricewaterhouseCoopers fifth edition June 2012 "Strategic and Emerging Issues in South African Insurance 2012" report, coupled with a comment from my partner regards how easy direct life insurance seems to be to buy, as well as chatting to an ex broker who has just bought life insurance from an online provider... i feel compelled to investigate the reasons behind this.

The report mentioned above has an intermediated distribution ...

Every now and then there are exciting developments in this industry!

Some of them appear before their time, yet are not.

In South Africa, there is a huge under insurance gap for people in terms of life and disability cover. So, this will appeal to those that currently contribute to charities or to those that want to leave something behind to their favourite charities. In other words, should appeal to those that have already protected themselves (as ...

FInally, i once again write in this blog.

I have had quite a few older people (excuse me) asking for gap medical aid cover. So, i thought that it might be a good idea to put something in this blog.

The product provider that we use has changed the product for 2012...some of the highlights/changes:

· Pro-Care covers up to 500% of the scheme rate and covers the shortfall for ...

Good day All,

It has been a while since i have added an entry to this blog.

There have been quite a few comments and spam, however, i thought it pertinent to add one now.

Discovery have entered the short term market, with a personal lines (household insurance and motor insura ce ) offering.

Needless to say, they have compeletely re-thought the insurance market, offering and claim process.

And launched a very interesting product.
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Discovery Equity Fund first in its sector

The Discovery Equity Fund was ranked first in its sector over the three-year period since its inception.

The fund outperformed its stated benchmark by 22.35% over the three-year period. The ...

Good evening everyone,

This post concerns Protea Medical Aid Society being placed under curatorship and the resultant requests from members wanting to join Discovery Health. Discovery Health have therefore issued a special offer for existing Protea Medical Aid Scoiety members.

On the 11th of November 2010, the Council for Medical Schemes released their Press Release 15 of 2010. This indicated that Protea Medical Aid Society had been placed under curatorship as from the 29th of October 2010. An inspection report done ...

Dear All,

The following has been taken from the eDiscoverer, dated the 2nd of September 2010 (discoverys' ezine):

"Strong results for Discovery in a significant year of investment for future growth 

Discovery today announced its annual results ...