Old Mutual Corporate Podcast

In this episode of the Old Mutual Finance Podcast Series, Senzo Lubisi is joined by Robin Raichman, and they both unpack debt review process and consideration, debt consolidation and relief options, prescribed debt as well as listing and paid-up letters.

Head of Collections and ECM Strategy at Old Mutual Finance, Senzo Lubisi speaks to Motheo Khoaripe about the Credit. What is credit? What is the cost of credit?

Saving for retirement is is about designing the life you're going to live in the future, today. Discover why it's important to start saving early.

A look at different retirement savings products - what are the differences between pension, provident funds and retirement annuities.

Understand the benefits of the Old Mutual Max Investment Optimal Retirement Plan which include adjust your premiums when you need to, boost your fund value after five years and opt for premium protection benefit.

SMEs are engines of innovation, job creation & economic growth, yet they have challenges accessing funding. Join Audery Masango & Nobesuthu Ndlovu, Director of SME at Old Mutual address the challenges SMEs face with access to funding and more.

A number of unexpected factors are shaping group risk insurance in our post-pandemic world – heightened awareness of what they’re getting amongst employees, flexible benefits structures and an entirely new definition of what it means to be ‘at work.’

Join Big Business Insights podcast host Blessing Utete and Old Mutual’s Group Assurance Business Executive, Mariaan de Jongh, as they discuss these trends, how they are changing group benefits products and choices, and importantly, how it could influence your company’s employee value proposition in the future. 

 You’ll gather insights on:

Trends in group risk benefits and what’s driving themDeath and disability benefits in a post-Covid South AfricaThe rise of flexible structures and how employees are exercising more choiceWhat employers should consider before allowing flexibilityThe value of funeral benefits many employees seem to miss, and why.

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Many South African employees, across industries and income bands, are struggling financially. But just how much, and from an employer’s perspective, how much does it affect their work?

In this episode of Big Business Insights, host Blessing Utete is joined by Dr. Frank Magwegwe to discuss the important subject of employee financial wellness. Dr Magwegwe, popularly knowns as Dr Mags, is a personal finance and employee financial wellness expert, a financial planning researcher, life planner, educator, and an academic, and passionate about this South African dilemma.  

Join Dr. Mags and Blessing as they discuss:

The state of the SA workforce’s financesHow HR managers and business leaders can spot the signs of financial distressWhat you as a decision-maker can do to help your employees learn the right financial behaviours to become financially healthy. 

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The four-day workweek has been a topic of discussion across the globe since the Covid-19 pandemic changed the way many businesses approached their way of working. This year, a number of companies in South Africa adopted the shorter week as a pilot project and reward-management experts at Remchannel did a countrywide survey among corporate employers to get insights into their thinking around a 32-hour workweek.

Listen to this Big Business Insights podcast hosted by Blessing Utete, host and Managing Executive at Old Mutual Corporate Consultants in conversation with Remchannel’s Managing Director Designate, Lindiwe Sebesho, as they discuss what the survey reveals and whether the four-day workweek is gaining traction, plus how decision-makers should view it within their overall EVP. 

Topics covered include: 

What the four-day workweek is and how it’s playing out in businessInteresting findings that have come out of Remchannel’s survey What SA corporates think about the ideaWhy the four-day workweek is actually part of a bigger employee conversationHow businesses and decision-makers can gauge if it’s the right choice for their business, and what to do if it isn’t.

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The proposed Two-Pot Retirement System could be implemented as soon as March 2024. Yet a lot of questions remain about how exactly the new system will work, how to prepare for it, and what it will mean for funds and their members.

In this episode of our Big Business Insights podcast series, host and Managing Executive at Old Mutual Corporate Consultants Blessing Utete asks our Retirement Reform Executive Michelle Acton – who’s been closely involved with Treasury in the consultation process around the new system – all the important questions you need to know:

What’s changing, what isn’t and what’s still unclear?How will it change the retirement and employee benefits landscape? What do employers and brokers need to explain to their employees or clients?How exactly will the Savings Pot work?And more.

Listen as Blessing and Michelle unpack the who, what, when and how of, arguably, the most impactful change to the South African retirement industry in recent history.