African Reinsurance Sector: Weathering the Storm

African Reinsurance Sector: Weathering the Storm

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with Mr. Corneille Karekezi, Group Managing Director/Chief Executive of African Reinsurance Corporation. He talks to Capital Markets in Africa about challenges and opportunities in African Insurance and Reinsurance markets. How is the reinsurance sector coping with the current macroeconomic uncertainty, where currency volatility and the commodity slump coupled with terrorism and political instability have put pressure on economies in Africa? CORNEILLE KAREKEZI: The recent slump in commodity prices coupled with the attending depreciation of most currencies…

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INTO AFRICA May 2017 Edition: Africa’s Insurance Markets Uncovered

INTO AFRICA May 2017 Edition: Africa’s Insurance Markets Uncovered

LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Welcome to the May 2017 edition of INTO AFRICA, the publication with fresh insight into Africa’s emerging capital markets. This edition focuses on the Insurance sector and is titled: Africa’s Insurance Markets Uncovered marks an exciting time in the sector. Please download by clicking: INTO AFRICA PUBLICATION: MAY 2017 EDITION. The insurance sector remains under-developed in Africa (it generates barely 1.7% of global insurance premiums) despite being home to 15% of the World’s population,…

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