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After a little more than a year into my role as Chief Marketing Officer, I have started to think very differently about death and the business of death. Coming from an FMCG environment, I found the transition to the services sector, specifically funeral and life insurance, significant. However, I also discovered that there are similarities between the two sectors.

As we have just celebrated International Women’s Day on 8 March, it is important to recognise that financial independence is a key pillar of gender equality. As such, it is essential for women to stay on track with prioritising their finances.

If you have an entrepreneurial spirit and have already laid the groundwork to turn your dream into a successful business, now is the time to consider what kind of legacy you are building. This begins with your employees and the security you offer as a leader. Entrepreneurs have the power to shape lives and communities by the thousands, and they should be able to protect what they’ve built.

Saving money is all about sticking to very strict budgets, sweating while crunching numbers, and skipping out on fun to get serious about your finances, right? Well, according to South Africans it doesn’t necessarily have to be. Savings goals don’t have to equate to life becoming all work and no play. 

We take out insurance for the unpredictable things in life – a burst geyser, a cracked windscreen or stolen household items. But what about the inevitable? A lot of people avoid talking about death – which is somewhat strange as this is something we cannot escape.

There have been many instances where people have received large sums of money from an insurance pay out and have blown it all unwisely. The TV series I Blew It shows a few examples of this and many have experienced this first hand or seen family and friends go through the same.

Learning and development is one area that has been particularly hard hit by the pandemic, given its reliance on classroom interaction. We recently found ourselves in a difficult position with the announcement of the lockdown in March, having appointed almost 200 advisers to begin on 1 April 2020.