Discovery Health and Uber partner to bring UberHEALTH to South Africa
Get the flu vaccination with ease
It is not too late to immunize against the flu this winter, and on Friday 22 May 2015 Discovery and Uber, the innovative app that connects riders with drivers, are making it easy for everyone to get vaccinated with the delivery of UberHEALTH. Between 10:00 AM and 4:00 PM on the day, Discov
Adrian Gore, CEO of Discovery, will tomorrow night receive the Geneva Forum for Health Award at a ceremony during the Forum for Health in Geneva, Switzerland.
The second Discovery Financial Planning Summit will take place on 19 May 2015 at the Sandton Convention Centre under the theme ‘Making sense of today’s financial complexities.’ Over 1500 financial advisers are expected to attend the event, which is notably a key highlight in the 2015 financial services calendar.
Discovery Limited (“Discovery”) and John Hancock Insurance (“John Hancock”) have entered into a strategic partnership which will see the introduction of a comprehensive healthy living program for U.S. consumers. John Hancock, a division of the global financial services group Manulife, is one of the largest life insurers in the United States.
Discovery Invest announced its new globally-focused retirement product, the Dollar Discovery Retirement Optimiser, which is aimed at building up a retirement nest egg in hard currency.
Discovery will host its second Financial Planning Summit on 19 May 2015 at the Sandton Convention Centre under the theme ‘Making sense of today’s financial complexities’.
At a launch held in Johannesburg, Discovery Invest announced its investment product enhancements which included a newly designed structured fund, the Discovery Enhanced Yield Fund. Compared with traditional interest or income funds, the Discovery Enhanced Yield Fund offers investors the potential to earn significantly higher fixed returns of 15 percent per year.
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
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.
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.
1. Cover for motor vehicle accidents in claims
against the Road Accident Fund
Discovery’s
position on Road Accident Fund (“RAF”) claims is in accordance with the
attached press release from the Council of Medical Schemes (Annexure A) and is
summarised below:
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Discovery Health Medical Scheme (“the Scheme”) does
not differentiate between medical claims resulting from a motor vehicle
According to the Discovery Vitality ObeCity Index the least healthy Vitality members, when compared on weight status and associated factors, live in Bloemfontein while the healthiest Vitality members live in Cape Town.
Innovative behaviour-based model drives global Discovery growth • Normalised profit from operations up 23% to R4 976 million • New business growth of 15% to R12 196 million • Normalised headline earnings up 24% to R3 457 million • Growth in embedded value of 21% to R43.1 billion
Johannesburg (26 August 2014) – Discovery Limited today announced a strategic partnership deal with US-based Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), a leading telematics technology provider. This deal will further bolster the current strategic partnership between Discovery Insure and CMT.
Making it; listening to it; and dancing to it – music has long had a special place in South African culture and celebration. What a better way than to acknowledge a group of special South Africans who are true heroes in people’s lives, than through music.
