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Second wave Covid-19 impact on insured benefit claims

The second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has put the Sanlam Umbrella Fund insured benefits service providers under immense pressure on the processing and payment of some of the risk benefit claims.

The resilience of balanced funds in turbulent times

Balanced funds delivered strong returns for investors in 2020. Through markets that plunged, and then rose, in rapid succession, managers of balanced funds were able to apply tactical asset allocation to extract the best performance from equities, bonds and the performance of the rand.