ALEXANDER Forbes Group Holdings is on the hunt for businesses to acquire to build out its employee-benefits offering after finalising plans to exit its insurance arm.
The South African retirement and investment adviser is boosting its surplus capital and selling its risk and retail business operations — which had insurance premium income of R1 billion ($72.7 million) at the end of March — to Sanlam Ltd.
The R100 million deal draws to a close a strategy of ending capital-intensive activities, following disposals in Uganda and Zambia, and allows the firm to focus on adding scale in its focus areas.
“It’s about new business and about more acquisitions as the market consolidates,” Chief Executive Officer Dawie de Villiers said in an interview on Monday. As a result of “Covid, we are seeing much more engagement with players that were not at the table in the past.”
The firm plans to bulk
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