{"id":800898,"date":"2024-11-22T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=800898"},"modified":"2024-11-22T07:29:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T05:29:45","slug":"business-talk-libertys-david-jewell-on-south-africas-massive-life-insurance-shortfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/800898\/business-talk-libertys-david-jewell-on-south-africas-massive-life-insurance-shortfall\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 Liberty\u2019s David Jewell on South Africa\u2019s massive life insurance shortfall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this Business Talk with Michael Avery interview, Liberty\u2019s David Jewell discusses the consequences of South Africa\u2019s current life insurance shortfall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jewell is the Head of Retail, Life, and Savings for Liberty Group South Africa, and has worked for the company for 19 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to his current role, Jewell held multiple key positions at Liberty &#8211; including Acting Managing Executive for Retail Solutions, Group Executive for Individual Arrangements, CRO, and Chief Actuary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jewell was also a Director for Quindiem Consulting for four years before joining Liberty, and entered the insurance industry as a Deputy Development Actuary for Swiss RE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He holds a BSc (Hons) in Statistics and Actuarial Science from the University of the Witwatersrand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The interview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In this Business Talk interview, Jewell discusses the implications of South Africa\u2019s massive life insurance shortfall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He provides his ideas for improving life insurance penetration in South Africa, and unpacks the positive effects this would have on the economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jewell then details the trends he has seen regarding changing attitudes towards life insurance among South Africans, and discusses the role businesses must play in promoting life insurance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He concludes the interview by unpacking the initiatives Liberty is running to educate South Africans in financial literacy to improve life insurance uptake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the full interview with David Jewell below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Business Talk - David Jewell unpacks the implications of the current insurance gap\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i188w2CEVSY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Jewell is the Head of Retail, Life, and Savings at Liberty Group South Africa &#8211; and boasts decades of insurance industry experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":800900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121],"tags":[15508,11127],"class_list":["post-800898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-businesstalk","tag-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800902,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800898\/revisions\/800902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}