Key insights about Discovery Life’s 2024 Claims Experience include:
Growth in payments for living benefits – namely illness, disability and income protection – and Shared-value rewards for health behaviours outpaces growth in payouts for death benefits.
Discovery Life clients who reached a Gold or Diamond Vitality status experienced a 57% lower mortality risk and a 47% lower disability risk,
Discovery Insure’s telematics data shows that just 20 seconds on a phone increases accident risk by over 60% and that cellphone-linked distraction is the biggest contributor to road accidents in the country. Discovery Insure and bp launch the #DriveNowTextLater campaign – a national movement to stop drivers from texting while driving. Drivers are encouraged to pledge not to text and drive by ap
Johannesburg – 27 March 2025 – Discovery Bank announced the latest advancements in its banking features and services, unveiled today at a client and financial adviser launch.
Salient additions to Discovery Bank:
Vitality Money, the bank’s behavioural change programme, now incorporates rewards for financial planning to align clients’ short-term goals and long-term aspirations, including es
Johannesburg, 4 March 2025 – Discovery today presented its interim financial results for the six-months ended 31 December 2024 to the investor community.
Group Chief Executive, Adrian Gore, provided context to the Group’s strong performance and consistent growth across the two composites of the business. “We have emerged from a cycle of significant investment, which focused on creating new aven
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Harnessing the power of advanced, evidence-based data science and artificial intelligence (AI)
17 February 2025, Johannesburg – The global economy is transforming, reshaping the landscape for investors and economies alike. As these era-defining mega forces – artificial intelligence (AI), decarbonisation and ageing populations – unfold, Cogence’s 2025 Market Outlook, in collaboration with BlackRock and RisCura, identifies opportunities amid a dynamic and uncertain environment.
Key highlig
Vitality Health International’s health insurance offering which employers can provide to their staff, presented through Strategis’ in-market insurance expertise, brings innovative new benefits to Tanzania, including a range of four flexible plan options, a Malaria Benefit, and the Vitality behaviour-change rewards programme.
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 13 February 2025 – Health insurance provider
12 February 2025, Johannesburg – The Discovery Invest 2025 Market Outlook highlights how a recovering global economy and transformative trends such as artificial intelligence (AI) are shaping investment opportunities in unusual market conditions. With global uncertainties, such as shifts in US trade and fiscal policies under the Trump administration, the need for a measured, long-term investment s
Key insights about Discovery Insure’s Vitality Car Rating include:
Vitality Car Rating, a first of its kind, uses driving behaviour and data analytics to enhance a vehicle’s resale value. Discovery Insure clients can now get up to a 15% boost when they sell their car at participating Weelee and Motus Select dealerships.
Vitality Car Rating leverages 13 years of Discovery Insure data, incl
Johannesburg, 3 February 2025 – The Discovery Vitality Run Series (VRS) is officially underway, following a successful first event, the Olympic Spartan Harriers Firgrove Challenge with Discovery Vitality, held in the Western Cape. The race saw thousands of runners take to the streets this past weekend, marking the start of an exciting season of 16 events designed to get South Africans moving.
Johannesburg, January 29, 2025– Engaging in regular physical activity before a cancer diagnosis can significantly reduce the risk of cancer progression and mortality, according to new research published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. The study, conducted by Discovery Vitality in partnership with researchers from Wits University and the University of Western Ontario, highlights the crit
Discovery Green is pleased to announce the signing of five new clients in the mining, property and hospitality sectors, securing long-term partnerships with Impala Platinum Holdings Limited (Implats), KP Lime, The Capital Hotels and Apartments, Balwin Properties, and Fortress REIT Limited. The signing of these agreements aligns with Discovery Green’s mission to provide affordable and price-certain
