Sanlam

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Sanlam Limited
Company type Public
JSE: SLM
Industry Insurance, asset management, wealth management, investments
Founded1918;106 years ago (1918) [1]
Headquarters Bellville, Western Cape, South Africa [2]
Key people
 Paul Hanratty CEO [3]
Abigail Mukhuba CFO
Elias Masilela Chairman
Website www.sanlamgroup.co.za

Sanlam is a South African financial services group headquartered in Bellville, Western Cape, South Africa. [2] Sanlam is one of the largest insurance company in Africa. It is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, the Namibian Stock Exchange and the A2X. [4] Established in 1918 as a life insurance company, [5] Sanlam Group has developed into a diversified financial services business. Its five business clusters comprise Sanlam Personal Finance, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Sanlam Investments, Sanlam Corporate and Santam. [6]

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The group's areas of expertise include insurance (life and general), financial planning, retirement annuities, trusts, wills, short-term insurance, asset management, risk management and capital market activities, investment and wealth. The group operates in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Eswatini, Zimbabwe, [7] Mauritius, Malawi, Zambia, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Morocco, Mozambique, India, Malaysia and the UK, and has business interests in the US, Australia, Burundi, [8] Lesotho and the Philippines. It has a stake in micro-insurance specialists, UK-based Micro-Ensure Holdings Limited, which has a footprint across Africa [9] and India servicing more than 10 million enrolled clients.

Its 2018 acquisition of SAHAM Finances has made it Africa’s biggest non-banking financial services [10] player and has given it exposure to Morocco, Angola, Algeria, Tunisia, Niger, Mali, Senegal, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Cote D’Ivoire, Togo, Benin, Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Madagascar, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.

History

The Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Trust en Assuransie Maatskappy Beperk (South African National Trust and Assurance Company Limited), Santam, was registered on 28 March 1918. It was then decided to convert the life assurance department into a separate company, and the Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Lewens Assuransie Maatskappy Beperk (South African National Life Assurance Company Limited), Sanlam, was registered on 8 June 1918. Sanlam, the subsidiary, later became the spearhead of the operation, while Santam remained focused on short-term insurance.

Sanlam showed a small profit at the end of its first year, declared a bonus, and continued to grow consistently from there.

Santam remained the controlling shareholder until 1954 when Sanlam became an independent mutual life assurance company, as well as the largest single shareholder in Santam.

Over the years, Sanlam's focus gradually shifted from traditional life insurance to providing a broader range of financial products and services. In 1998 Sanlam demutualised, listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) Ltd and the Namibian Stock Exchange. This changed Sanlam from a mutual entity into a public company with a share capital, namely Sanlam Life Insurance Ltd. At the same time a separate company, Sanlam Ltd, was installed as the parent company of the Sanlam group of businesses. The group was also restructured into several independent businesses within a federal business structure.

Today, Sanlam is a diversified financial services provider with an extensive product offering catering for all market segments. The group has consistently grown its local as well as an international footprint – it now has a presence in 33 African countries [11] also India, Malaysia, the UK and Ireland, the USA, Australia and the Philippines.

In 2018, Sanlam concluded its $1.1 billion acquisition of SAHAM Finances. [12] Additionally, the group announced details of its R11 billion BEE deal, which will see it increasing its direct black shareholding to 18% and black economic ownership to 35%. [13]

In December 2021, The Sanlam Group entered into discussions with Allianz for the acquisition of the entire group in Africa except South Africa. Discussions are conducted between the group's headquarters in Bellville and Munich. [14]

In February 2023, South African wills and estates administrator Capital Legacy and Sanlam announced that they would joining forces by creating a wills, estates and trusts business together. The transaction, which is subject to regulatory approval, will see Sanlam Life Insurance Limited (Sanlam Life) sell its trust business, Sanlam Trust, to Capital Legacy and Sanlam Life acquiring a 26% interest in the enlarged Capital Legacy Group that includes the Sanlam Trust business following completion of the transaction. The merged entity will be managed by Capital Legacy. [15] [16]

Economic empowerment

Sanlam has since 1993 contributed to broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) through the group’s partnership with Ubuntu-Botho Investments. [17]

The Ubuntu-Botho B-BBEE partnership resulted in a broad-based black empowerment consortium buying a 10% shareholding in Sanlam [18] in what was to become one of the most far-reaching black empowerment transactions in South Africa to date.

In December 2013, the initial 10-year contractual period of the transaction with Ubuntu-Botho [19] ended, with a final total of 66.5 million deferred shares qualifying for conversion to ordinary shares. The deal created value of about R15 billion, making it arguably one of the most successful transactions of its kind in South African history. [20] In 2014, an agreement was reached to extend the partnership with Ubuntu-Botho into the future. [21]

In 2018, Sanlam announced details of BEE transactions, which will increase its direct black shareholding to 18% and black economic ownership to 35%. The Group will sell 5% of its issued shares to new and existing B-BBEE shareholders, creating a master trust that caters to 80% of the intended beneficiaries, with Ubuntu-Botho benefitting from the other 20%. [22]

Operations

The corporate office of the Sanlam Group is responsible for centralised functions that include strategic direction, group financial and risk management, group marketing and communications, group human resources and information technology, group sustainability management, corporate social investment and general group services.

In addition, the Sanlam group operations are managed through five operating clusters:

The core businesses within each cluster are as follows (wholly owned unless otherwise indicated):

Sanlam Personal Finance

The largest business in the Sanlam Group of companies, with 11,406 employees and assets worth R 472,328 million under management.

Strategic business development consists of the following diversified financial services: Sanlam Trust (estate and trust services), Multi-Data (electronic money-transfer activities), Sanlam Healthcare Management (medical scheme administration services), Sanlam Personal Loans (70%) (personal loans joint venture), Reality (loyalty programme) and Anglo African Finance (55%) (trade and bridging finance).

Sanlam Emerging Markets

The Sanlam Emerging Markets cluster is responsible for Sanlam’s financial business services (life insurance, general insurance, banking, retail credit, health, bancassurance, asset management and specialist general insurance products) in emerging markets outside South Africa:

Credit and banking:

Investment management:

General insurance: Jointly responsible in partnership with Santam for managing general insurance business through:

Sanlam Investments

Asset management

  • Sanlam Investment Management (SIM) – manages institutional portfolios and retail collective investment (unit trust) funds
  • Sanlam Structured Solutions – structured products

Multi-management

  • Sanlam Multi Manager International (SMMI) – investment management advisory business

Alternative investments

  • Blue Ink – hedge fund manager focusing on both the local and global investment markets
  • Sanlam Alternative Investments – focuses on the compounding of positive investment returns coupled with downside protection strategies to generate wealth for retail and institutional clients
  • Sanlam Africa Investments – with a presence in 13 African countries, Sanlam Africa Investments enables investors to capitalise on African growth opportunities by successfully sourcing and managing investments across a range of asset classes

Passive investments

  • Satrix [25] – offers investors easy, cost effective access to the markets through a wide range of passively managed investment products

Capital management: [26]

  • Capital management – manages portions of Sanlam's third-party and policyholders' funds
  • Sanlam Capital Markets (SCM)
  • Sanlam Private Equity (SPE)

Employee benefits

  • Sanlam Employee Benefits – Provides risk and investment administration services to institutions and retirement funds
  • Sanlam Group Risk (SGR)
  • Sanlam Employee Benefits Investments (SEB Investments)
  • Sanlam Umbrella Solutions (SUS)
  • Sanlam Retirement Fund Administration (RFA)
  • Simeka Consultants and Actuaries

Wealth management

  • Sanlam Private Wealth (SPW) – Private client wealth management and stockbroking
  • Calibre Investments – 50.1% – Australian investment management
  • Sanlam Private Investments UK – 97% – UK private wealth management and stockbroking
  • Summit Trust – 65% – International independent trust services group in Switzerland
  • Investment Advisory Services and Fiduciary and Tax services

International investments

  • Sanlam International Investment Partners – manages established partnerships with specialist investment management firms abroad
  • SIM Global – manages long-only specialist international equity funds
  • Sanlam Asset Management Ireland (SAMI) – Sanlam's international investment management platform in Dublin managing funds domiciled in Ireland
  • Sanlam UK – wealth management player in retail financial services in the United Kingdom, comprising Sanlam Investments and Pensions, Sanlam Distribution, Sanlam Private Wealth and Investment Management
  • P2 International – International Mutual Fund Administration Investment services
  • Sanlam Collective Investments – retail, multi-managed, institutional and third-party collective investment (unit trust) funds

Santam

Sanlam has an effective 60% interest in Santam, which in turn operates through the following businesses:

Sanlam group executive leadership

Recent news

Sanlam reported a 22% growth in new business volumes to R100 billion in the six months to June 2015, [30] compared to the same period in 2014. The net result from financial services climbed by 5% in the first half of 2014, and by 11% when certain one-time factors are excluded. The annualized RoGEV per share of 13% exceeded the aim of 12.1%. The group's principal performance target for measuring shareholder value creation is RoGEV.

Ian Kirk was appointed as group chief executive [31] and executive director of Sanlam Limited and Sanlam Life Insurance Limited from 1 July 2015. This follows the retirement of former Group Chief Executive Dr Johan van Zyl from this position, as well as from the boards of Sanlam Limited [32] and Sanlam Life Insurance Ltd.

In November 2015 Sanlam announced that the group had agreed to buy a 30 percent stake in Morocco-based Saham Finances, which operates in 26 countries predominantly across Africa with a presence in the Middle East. The US$375 million deal will significantly expand the group's African footprint. [33]

Former CEO, Dr Johan van Zyl, joined the Sanlam Limited and Sanlam Life Insurance Limited Boards as a non-executive director and representative of Ubuntu-Botho Investment Holdings, Sanlam's black economic empowerment partner as of 18 January 2016. [34]

A new business cluster known as Sanlam Corporate was created early in 2016. The unit will be headed by the former CEO of Munich Re sub-Saharan Africa, Junior John Ngulube and will offer corporate clients life insurance, general insurance, investments, health insurance, retirement, financial planning and advice. [35]

In February 2023, Capital Legacy and Sanlam announced that they would be joining forces by creating an even more compelling wills, estates and trusts business together. [36] [37] [38]

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