At a launch event held in Johannesburg on Tuesday, Discovery Life announced exciting enhancements to its Income Continuation Benefit, which includes market-leading comprehensive income and lifestyle protection and a broadened claims criteria.
Discovery Limited today announced details of the Group’s intention to raise capital to the amount of R5 billion through a fully underwritten, renounceable rights issue. Proceeds of the rights issue will be used to fund growth in adjacent financial markets in South Africa, and to drive further growth in its high-potential protection business in the UK, VitalityLife.
Discovery delivers excellent financial results and accelerated global growth • Normalised headline earnings up 20% to R1 981 million • Normalised profit from operations up 19% to R2 824 million • Growth in embedded value increased 14% to R45.5 billion • New business growth of 17% to R6 663 million
Join Head of the Vitality Institute Derek Yach and the Health Assessment, Monitoring and Intervention Board (HAMI) for the Management Forum Media Breakfast where they will present the role and the progress of HAMI, that goes beyond screening and prevention into monitoring and intervention.
Discovery Vitality and Club100 have announced a strategic partnership that will see Club100’s extensive experience in managing cycling clubs across the country combine forces with Discovery Vitality’s expertise in encouraging people to get active and prioritise their health.
The worlds of business and sport combined on Thursday night for the Discovery Sport Industry Awards 2015 to recognise and celebrate the best work across the business. The annual celebration of success is the sport industry’s flagship event and took place at the Sandton Convention Centre for the second consecutive year.
Successfully launched in May of 2014, the Discovery Capital 200+ is reopening today, Monday, 26 February 2015 for a limited period. For investors looking for equity exposure to the European and US markets, the Discovery Capital 200+ offering is a fixed-term five-year product investing in the Euro Stoxx 50 and S&P 500 indices.
Discovery Health’s fourth bottom line strategy was on 15 January 2015 endorsed by health ministers of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) at a key conference held in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. This strategy takes into account the impact of employee wellness on company performance and profit and integrates health reporting into companies’ statutory reports.
Are you a health journalist proud of your work in helping to provide our citizens with reporting of high quality in healthcare? Discovery Health invites you to submit your work that has been published or broadcast between 1 January 2014 and 31 December 2014 for the Discovery Health Journalism Awards 2014.
18 November - The Generali Group (“Generali”) today announced a strategic partnership that will see the introduction of Discovery’s shared-value insurance model to the European market. Generali is one of the 50 largest organisations in the world and serves over 60 million clients.
The 2014 Healthy Company Index, hosted on the 12th of November by Discovery Vitality, indicated that healthier companies show lower absenteeism rates and more productivity levels than their unhealthier competitors.
Discovery today announced an important strategic change in its business with its acquisition of the remaining 25% stake in Prudential Health Holdings Limited, the holding company of PruHealth and PruProtect in the UK.
