Momentum Metropolitan Holdings Limited

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Momentum Group Limited
Company type Public
JSE:MMH
A2X:MMH
NSX:MMH
Industry Insurance and financial services
Founded2010;14 years ago (2010)
Headquarters Centurion, City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality South Africa
Key people
Paul Baloyi - Chairman
Jeanette Marais – CEO
Products Insurance and asset management
RevenueIncrease2.svg ZAR: 66.4 billion (2023)
Increase2.svg ZAR: 4.9 billion (2023)
Total assets Increase2.svg ZAR: 636.8 billion (2023)
Total equity Increase2.svg ZAR: 27.2 billion (2023)
Number of employees
16 115 (2024)
Website momentummetropolitan.co.za

Momentum Limited Group, formerly Momentum Metropolitan Holdings Limited, is a South African based financial services group that is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. [1]

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Overview

Momentum Group Limited engages in long and short-term insurance, asset management, savings, investment and employee benefits through its various brands. The Group has subsidiaries in Botswana, Ghana, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Kenya, Lesotho, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, UK, South Africa and Zambia. [2]

History

In July 2019 MMI took the decision to change its name from MMI Holdings to Momentum Metropolitan Holdings. The change aims to promote the well-known brand names of two of the strongest companies within the Group, Momentum and Metropolitan.

MMI Holdings was formed in 2010 when Metropolitan Holdings and Momentum Group, two insurance and financial services companies in South Africa, merged their operations. [1]

Pre-Merger History

Metropolitan Holdings Limited

Metropolitan was founded in 1898 as Homes Trust Limited and was later acquired by Sanlam in 1918. [3] [4] Sanlam merged Homes Trust Limited with Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Limited (another one of its subsidiaries) to form Metropolitan Homes Trust Life Limited in 1979. [5]

In 1985, Metropolitan Homes Trust Life Limited changed its name to Metropolitan Life Limited (Metlife). Metlife was then listed on the JSE in 1986 and cross listed on the NSX in 1996. The group name was changed to Metropolitan Holdings Limited in 2003. [5] As at the merger date, Metropolitan Holdings was listed on the JSE.

Momentum Group Limited

Momentum traces its roots from Momentum Life Assurers Limited that was established in 1966 as a life assurance company and Southern Life Association Limited that was incorporated in 1904 as African Life Assurance Society. In 1992, RMB Holdings (RMBH) acquired interest in Momentum Life Assurers Limited. [5]

On April 1, 1998, Anglo American Corporation of South Africa Limited (now Anglo American plc) merged its financial services interests with RMBH in order to achieve the objective of a unified financial services grouping known as First Rand. [6] The transaction required that the business of Momentum Life Assurers Limited was transferred to the Southern Life Association Limited whichwas renamed FirstRand Insurance Company Limited and much later renamed Momentum Group Limited. [5] As at the merger date, Momentum Group was a wholly owned subsidiary of First Rand.

In 2003, Momentum Group Limited transferred its investment in Discovery Limited to FirstRand Limited for R740 million. [7] This stake was later on unbundled to FirstRand's shareholders including RMBH. [8]

The merger

On March 31, 2010, Metropolitan Holdings, First Rand and Momentum Group entered into a Merger Agreement that would see the amalgamation of Momentum's business with Metropolitan. [5] FirstRand sold its entire shareholding in Momentum to Metropolitan in consideration for which Metropolitan will issue new Metropolitan ordinary shares to FirstRand. [9] This made Momentum a wholly owned subsidiary of Metropolitan. Metropolitan then transferred its insurance business to Momentum and was renamed MMI Holdings with FirstRand as the largest shareholder. [10]

Post-merger history

On 7 March 2011, RMB Holdings (RMBH), Remgro and FirstRand spun off their insurance assets to RMI Holdings and separately listing it on the JSE. This process led to the transfer of FirstRand's entire shareholding in MMI Holdings to RMI Holdings. [11] In 2020, Momentum Group started a new business initiative, Momentum Velocity Club, which provides lifestyle and financial planning services to young professionals. [12]

Ownership

The shares of the stock of Momentum Metropolitan Holdings Limited are traded on the JSE, under the symbol: MMH. As at June 2023, the shareholding in the group's stock was as depicted in the table below: [13]

Momentum Metropolitan Holdings Limited Stock Ownership
RankName of OwnerPercentage Ownership
1 Government Employees Pension Fund 14.90
2Remgro8.50
3Kagiso Tiso Holdings7.90
4Other Local & International Investors68.70
Total100.00

Governance

Momentum Metropolitan Holdings Limited is governed by an eighteen-person board of directors with Paul Baloyi serving as the chairman and Jeanette Marais serving as the group chief executive officer. [13]

Controversies

Life insurance payout controversy

Momentum Group, a subsidiary of MMI Holdings, was the subject of a national controversy in 2018 when it rejected the life insurance claim to the family of Denise Ganas. Ganas was shot and killed in an attempted hijacking. Momentum controversially refused to payout the R2.4 million claim arguing that Ganas had a previously undisclosed health condition (high blood sugar levels). [14] The resulting public outcry resulted in Momentum granting the claim to Ganas' family and discussions with the South African Financial Sector Conduct Authority so as to avoid similar situations in the future. Momentum agreed to amend its policy to payout life insurance claims up to R3 million resulting from violent crime regardless of pre-existing medical conditions. [15]

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References

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  2. ↑ "MMI Holdings Limited - 2014 Integrated Report" (PDF). MMI Holdings Limited. 30 June 2014. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  3. ↑ "Momentum Metropolitan Holdings Limited". insuranceff.com. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  4. ↑ "Impact of Covid – 19 pandemic on the Insurance Sector By Metropolitan Cannon" (PDF).
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 "MMI Holdings Limited - Revised Listing Particulars" (PDF). MMI Holdings Limited. 6 September 2010. Retrieved 27 March 2010.
  6. ↑ "First Rand - Abridged Revised Listing Particulars". Imara Investing in Africa. First Rand Limited. 25 May 1998. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
  7. ↑ "TEN MOST RANKED INSURANCE COMPANIES IN SOUTH AFRICA". www.ochesy.com. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  8. ↑ Stokes, Gareth (14 September 2007). "Rand Merchant Bank to top Discovery shareholder list". FA News. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
  9. ↑ "Metropolitan Holdings Limited - Circular to Metropolitan Shareholders" (PDF). Metropolitan Holdings Limited. 6 September 2010. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
  10. ↑ "Detailed cautionary announcement in relation to the proposed merger of Momentum and Metropolitan and the subsequent unbundling by FirstRand of its shares in Metropolitan" (PDF). MMI Holdings Limited. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
  11. ↑ "RMB Holdings Limited - Circular to shareholders regarding the RMBH restructuring" (PDF). RMB Holdings Limited. 3 February 2011. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
  12. ↑ "Giving young South Africans the velocity to reach their financial and life goals". FA News. 6 May 2020. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
  13. 1 2 "Momentum Metropolitan Holdings Limited - 2023 Group Annual Financial Statements" (PDF). 30 June 2023. p. 248. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  14. ↑ "Momentum to pay out death benefit to widow of slain policy holder". Fin24. 20 November 2018. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
  15. ↑ "Regulators will engage with insurers following Momentum fiasco". Fin24. 23 November 2018. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
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